--- title: The three girls stayed quietly in the palace for a little while, emb… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The three girls stayed quietly in the palace for a little while, embroidering, spinning, weaving, and tending their birds and flowers, when early one morning, the youngest princess entered the door of the emperor’s private apartments. Who acts: three girls, youngest princess. A sentence of «The Viol --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/38/58/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/38/) / 58 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 58 The three girls stayed quietly in the palace for a little while, embroidering, spinning, weaving, and tending their birds and flowers, when early one morning, the youngest princess entered the door of the emperor’s private apartments. **Who acts:** three girls, youngest princess · **What happens:** stay, embroider, spin, weave, tend, enter · **To what, where:** palace, birds, door This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three girls, youngest princess), 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:pg641:38:58 # text = The three girls stayed quietly in the palace for a little while, embroidering, spinning, weaving, and tending their birds and flowers, when early one morning, the youngest princess entered the door of the emperor’s private apartments. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 stayed stay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 embroidering embroider VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 spinning spin VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 weaving weave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 tending tend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 conj _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 28 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 29 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 34 amod _ _ 34 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’s 's PART POS _ 40 case _ _ 42 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 apartments apartment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay** | past | the three girls | | | the palace for a little while | | quietly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location | | 2 | **embroider** | gerund | the three girls *not said here* | | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **spin** | gerund | the three girls *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **weave** | gerund | the three girls *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **tend** | gerund | the three girls *not said here* | children's birds and flowers | | | | | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | | 6 | **enter** | past | the youngest princess | the door of the emperor's private apartments | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme door=Destination | 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 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/38/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/38/59/) - ↑ back to [The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/38/)