--- title: He spread carefully out on a fine white cloth his Mirabelle plums, w… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He spread carefully out on a fine white cloth his Mirabelle plums, which looked for all the world as if they had been freshly gathered, and when he saw the Princess coming out of church he began to call out in a feigned voice: ‘Fine plums! lovely plums!’ Who acts: mischief, Mirabelle plums, Princess --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/270/) [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/) / [The Little Soldier](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/) / 270 # The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 270 He spread carefully out on a fine white cloth his Mirabelle plums, which looked for all the world as if they had been freshly gathered, and when he saw the Princess coming out of church he began to call out in a feigned voice: ‘Fine plums! lovely plums!’ **Who acts:** mischief, Mirabelle plums, Princess · **What happens:** spread, look, gather, see, come out, begin · **To what, where:** fine white cloth, beard, Princess, church, feigned voice This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mischief, Mirabelle plums, 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:pg7277:22:270 # text = He spread carefully out on a fine white cloth his Mirabelle plums, which looked for all the world as if they had been freshly gathered, and when he saw the Princess coming out of church he began to call out in a feigned voice: ‘Fine plums! lovely plums!’ 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 out out ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 Mirabelle Mirabelle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 plums plum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 19 det:predet _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 as as SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 21 if if SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 24 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 aux:pass _ _ 25 freshly freshly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 gathered gather VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 xcomp _ _ 35 out out ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ _ 42 out out ADP RP _ 41 compound:prt _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 feigned feign VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 46 amod _ _ 46 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 : : PUNCT : _ 50 punct _ _ 48 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 Fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 plums plum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ! ! PUNCT . _ 50 punct _ _ 52 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 amod _ _ 53 plums plum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 ! ! PUNCT . _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spread** | past | mischief | | | a fine white cloth mischief's Mirabelle plums | | out *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on cloth=Location | | 2 | **look** | past | mischief's Mirabelle plums | | | | | for all world | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for world=Theme | | 3 | **gather** | past · perfect · passive | | beard | | | | freshly *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **see** | past | mischief | the Princess | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **come out** | gerund | the Princess *not said here* | church | | | | | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient church=Result | | 6 | **begin** | past | mischief | church *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **call out** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | mischief *not said here* | | | a feigned voice | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **feign** | participle | | | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 269](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/269/) - next →: [sentence 271](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/271/) - ↑ back to [The Little Soldier](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/)