--- title: After the feast was over and the guests were going away, the godmoth… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: After the feast was over and the guests were going away, the godmother laid the baby in the cradle, and said to the queen, ‘Whenever the baby goes to sleep, be sure you lay the basket beside her, and leave the eggshells in it. Who acts: feast, guests, godmother, baby. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feast, guests, godmother, baby), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg641:12:45 # text = After the feast was over and the guests were going away, the godmother laid the baby in the cradle, and said to the queen, ‘Whenever the baby goes to sleep, be sure you lay the basket beside her, and leave the eggshells in it. 1 After after SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 over over ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 guests guest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 9 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 11 away away ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 godmother godmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 cradle cradle NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 Whenever whenever SCONJ WRB _ 32 mark _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 cop _ _ 37 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 advcl _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 ccomp _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 beside beside ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 conj _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 eggshells eggshell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obj _ _ 49 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the feast | | | | | over *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **go away** | past · progressive | the guests | | | | | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **lay** | past | the godmother | the baby | | the cradle | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent baby=Theme in cradle=Destination | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | the queen | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to queen=Recipient | | 5 | **go** | present | the baby | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | the baby *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | infinitive | the baby *not said here* | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **lay** | present | you | the basket | | | | beside queen | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent basket=Theme beside she=Destination | | 9 | **leave** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the eggshells | | baby | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eggshell=Theme in it=Location | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/46/) - ↑ back to [The Child Who Came From an Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/)