--- title: She made the acquaintance of the King and the Queen without at first… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: She made the acquaintance of the King and the Queen without at first letting them know that she was a fairy, and they soon took a great fancy to her, and even trusted her with the precious Prince, whom she carried off to her palace, where she regaled him with cakes and tarts and every other good thi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/13/) [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 Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [Prince Featherhead and the Princess Ce…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/) / 13 # The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 13 She made the acquaintance of the King and the Queen without at first letting them know that she was a fairy, and they soon took a great fancy to her, and even trusted her with the precious Prince, whom she carried off to her palace, where she regaled him with cakes and tarts and every other good thing. **Who acts:** Fairy, King · **What happens:** make, let, know, be, take, trust · **To what, where:** acquaintance, King, fairy, great fancy, palace, Featherhead · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, King), 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:pg7277:12:13 # text = She made the acquaintance of the King and the Queen without at first letting them know that she was a fairy, and they soon took a great fancy to her, and even trusted her with the precious Prince, whom she carried off to her palace, where she regaled him with cakes and tarts and every other good thing. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 acquaintance acquaintance NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 without without SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 at at SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 14 advmod _ _ 14 letting let VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 26 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 fancy fancy NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 even even ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 trusted trust VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 36 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 precious precious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 44 obj _ _ 43 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 parataxis _ _ 45 off off ADP RP _ 44 compound:prt _ _ 46 to to ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 50 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 52 advmod _ _ 51 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 52 regaled regale VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 conj _ _ 53 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 obj _ _ 54 with with ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 55 cakes cake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 obl _ _ 56 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 57 tarts tart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 55 conj _ _ 58 and and CCONJ CC _ 62 cc _ _ 59 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 62 det _ _ 60 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 62 amod _ _ 61 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 62 amod _ _ 62 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 63 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | Fairy | the acquaintance of the King and the Queen | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acquaintance=Product | | 2 | **let** | gerund | Fairy *not said here* | King | | | | first *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **know** | infinitive | King *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is a** | past | Fairy | a fairy | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **take** | past | King | a great fancy | Fairy | | | soon *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme to she=Destination | | 6 | **trust** | past | King *not said here* | | Fairy | | | with the precious Prince | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Recipient with prince=Theme | | 7 | **carry off** | past | Fairy | | | Fairy's palace | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent whom=Theme to palace=Destination | | 8 | **regale** | past | Fairy | | Featherhead | | | with cakes and tarts and every other good thing | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with cake=Theme | | 9 | **acquaint** | | | the King and the Queen | | | | | nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: of=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 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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/14/) - ↑ back to [Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/)