--- title: When supper-time came she went into the house, declining all the Pri… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When supper-time came she went into the house, declining all the Princess’s offers of assistance, and shortly afterwards brought out a very small dish, saying: Who acts: supper time, house, Princess. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/135/) [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/) / 135 # The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 135 When supper-time came she went into the house, declining all the Princess’s offers of assistance, and shortly afterwards brought out a very small dish, saying: **Who acts:** supper time, house, Princess · **What happens:** come, go, decline, bring out, say, offer · **To what, where:** house, offers, small dish, assistance · **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 (supper time, house, 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:pg7277:12:135 # text = When supper-time came she went into the house, declining all the Princess’s offers of assistance, and shortly afterwards brought out a very small dish, saying: 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 2 supper supper NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 declining decline VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 13 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 17 det:predet _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ’s 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 offers offer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 assistance assistance NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 shortly shortly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ _ 25 out out ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 very very ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 dish dish NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | supper time | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **go** | past | house | | | the house | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **decline** | gerund | house *not said here* | the Princess's offers of assistance | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme | | 4 | **bring out** | participle | | a small dish | | | | afterwards, shortly *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dish=Patient | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **offer** | | the Princess | assistance | | | | | nom offer «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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 134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/134/) - next →: [sentence 136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/136/) - ↑ back to [Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/)