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title: The busy cook was just going to refuse her demand and order her out… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The busy cook was just going to refuse her demand and order her out of the kitchen, but the words died on his lips when he turned and beheld the beautiful Hyacinthia, and he answered politely, ‘You have just come in the nick of time, fair maiden. Who acts: busy cook, words, Milan, You. A sentence of
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 98

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The busy cook was just going to refuse her demand and order her out of the kitchen, but the words died on his lips when he turned and beheld the beautiful Hyacinthia, and he answered politely, ‘You have just come in the nick of time, fair maiden.

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**Who acts:** busy cook, words, Milan, You, Princess · **What happens:** go, refuse, order, die, turn, behold · **To what, where:** demand, Princess, kitchen, lips, beautiful Hyacinthia, nick

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (busy cook, words, Milan, You), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg7277:28:98
# text = The busy cook was just going to refuse her demand and order her out of the kitchen, but the words died on his lips when he turned and beheld the beautiful Hyacinthia, and he answered politely, ‘You have just come in the nick of time, fair maiden.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	refuse	refuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	demand	demand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	order	order	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	Hyacinthia	Hyacinthia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
38	politely	politely	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
42	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	just	just	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	parataxis	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	nick	nick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · progressive | the busy cook |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **refuse** | to-infinitive | the busy cook *not said here* | Princess's demand |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demand=Theme |
| 3 | **order** | infinitive | the busy cook *not said here* |  | Princess | the kitchen |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **die** | past | the words |  |  | Milan's lips |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **turn** | past | Milan |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **behold** | past | Milan *not said here* | the beautiful Hyacinthia |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hyacinthia=Stimulus |
| 7 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Milan |  |  |  |  | politely *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **come** | present · perfect | You |  |  | the nick of time and fair maiden |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nick=Location |
| 9 | **demand** |  | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom demand «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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.

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