--- title: Soon after, the sultan received a message from his daughter that the… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Soon after, the sultan received a message from his daughter that the stranger was there, and he commanded that a feast should be made ready, and, sending for the princess delivered into her hands a cup, which he said she was to present to Virgilius herself, in order to do him honour. Who acts: sulta --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/105/) [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/) / [Virgilius the Sorcerer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/) / 105 # The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 105 Soon after, the sultan received a message from his daughter that the stranger was there, and he commanded that a feast should be made ready, and, sending for the princess delivered into her hands a cup, which he said she was to present to Virgilius herself, in order to do him honour. **Who acts:** sultan, stranger, sending, princess · **What happens:** receive, be, command, make, send, deliver · **To what, where:** message, feast, cup, hands, Virgilius · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sultan, stranger, sending, 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:pg641:43:105 # text = Soon after, the sultan received a message from his daughter that the stranger was there, and he commanded that a feast should be made ready, and, sending for the princess delivered into her hands a cup, which he said she was to present to Virgilius herself, in order to do him honour. 1 Soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 2 after after ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 sultan sultan NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 received receive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 message message NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 ccomp _ _ 27 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 sending send VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 csubj _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 delivered deliver VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 36 into into ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 cup cup NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 44 obj _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 parataxis _ _ 45 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 46 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 47 to to PART TO _ 48 mark _ _ 48 present present VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 ccomp _ _ 49 to to ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 Virgilius Virgilius PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 51 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 53 in in SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 56 mark _ _ 54 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 fixed _ _ 55 to to PART TO _ 56 mark _ _ 56 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 conj _ _ 57 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 56 obj _ _ 58 honour honour VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 56 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 59 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **receive** | past | the sultan | a message | | | | from sultan's daughter; soon *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent message=Theme from daughter=Source | | 2 | **is** | past | the stranger | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **command** | past | stranger | | | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **make** | should · passive | | a feast | | | | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 5 | **send** | gerund | | | | | | for the princess | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **deliver** | past | sending | a cup | | princess's hands | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Patient | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | stranger | a cup | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **is** | past | princess | | Virgilius | | | princess *obl*; present *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **do** | to-infinitive | princess *not said here* | Virgilius | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **honour** | infinitive | princess *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/104/) - next →: [sentence 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/106/) - ↑ back to [Virgilius the Sorcerer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/)