--- title: Here he caused a dainty little banquet to be set forth, while hidden… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Here he caused a dainty little banquet to be set forth, while hidden musicians played softly, and the silvery fountains plashed down into their marble basins, and when presently the music stopped a single nightingale broke the stillness with his delicious chant. 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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 (Prince, hidden musicians, silvery fountains, music), 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:pg7277:11:81 # text = Here he caused a dainty little banquet to be set forth, while hidden musicians played softly, and the silvery fountains plashed down into their marble basins, and when presently the music stopped a single nightingale broke the stillness with his delicious chant. 1 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 caused cause VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 dainty dainty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 banquet banquet NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 11 forth forth ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 while while SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 hidden hidden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 musicians musician NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 softly softly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 silvery silvery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 fountains fountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 plashed plash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 24 down down ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 into into ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 marble marble ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 basins basin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 32 presently presently ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 nightingale nightingale NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 ccomp _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 stillness stillness NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 44 delicious delicious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 chant chant NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cause** | past | Prince | a dainty little banquet | | here | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition banquet=Patient | | 2 | **set** | to-infinitive · passive | Prince *not said here* | a dainty little banquet *not said here* | | | | forth *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V» | | 3 | **play** | past | hidden musicians | | | | | softly *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **plash down** | participle | the silvery fountains | | | fountains's marble basins | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **stop** | past | the music | | | | | presently *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **break** | past | a single nightingale | the stillness | | | | with Prince's delicious chant | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent stillness=Patient with chant=Instrument | | 7 | **chant** | | Prince | | | | | | nom chant «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/82/) - ↑ back to [Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/)