--- title: A little while after a dove rose from the water with a ring in its b… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: A little while after a dove rose from the water with a ring in its beak, and laying it in the prince’s hand, dabbled itself with the blood that was in the basin, when its head became that of a beautiful girl. Who acts: little while, blood, head. 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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 (little while, blood, head), 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:pg641:42:39 # text = A little while after a dove rose from the water with a ring in its beak, and laying it in the prince’s hand, dabbled itself with the blood that was in the basin, when its head became that of a beautiful girl. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj:outer _ _ 4 after after ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 dove dove NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 rose rose NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 19 laying lay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ’s 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 27 dabbled dabble VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 28 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 27 obj _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 basin basin NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 when when SCONJ WRB _ 41 mark _ _ 39 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 42 that that SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay** | gerund | a little while after a dove rose from the water with a ring in water's beak *not said here* | head | | the prince's hand | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in hand=Destination | | 2 | **dabble** | past | a little while after a dove rose from the water with a ring in water's beak | head | | | | with the blood | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | past | the blood | | | the basin | | | tree rules | | 4 | **become** | past | head's head | a beautiful girl | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/42/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/42/40/) - ↑ back to [The Prince Who Wanted to See the World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/42/)