--- title: At last they sent one of the Queen’s maids to wait upon Fiordelisa,… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At last they sent one of the Queen’s maids to wait upon Fiordelisa, and told her to pretend to be quite stupid, and to see and hear nothing, while she was really to watch the Princess day and night, and keep the Queen informed of all her doings. Who acts: letters, Queen. A sentence of «The Green Fai --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/3/116/) [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 Blue Bird, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/3/) / 116 # The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 116 At last they sent one of the Queen’s maids to wait upon Fiordelisa, and told her to pretend to be quite stupid, and to see and hear nothing, while she was really to watch the Princess day and night, and keep the Queen informed of all her doings. **Who acts:** letters, Queen · **What happens:** send, wait, tell, pretend, be, see · **To what, where:** one, last, Fiordelisa, Queen, nothing · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (letters, Queen), 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:pg7277:3:116 # text = At last they sent one of the Queen’s maids to wait upon Fiordelisa, and told her to pretend to be quite stupid, and to see and hear nothing, while she was really to watch the Princess day and night, and keep the Queen informed of all her doings. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obl _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ’s 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 maids maid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl _ _ 13 upon upon ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Fiordelisa Fiordelisa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 iobj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 pretend pretend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 22 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 cop _ _ 23 quite quite ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 stupid stupid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 31 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 33 while while SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 34 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 36 really really ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 parataxis _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl:unmarked _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 conj _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 obj _ _ 49 informed inform VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 46 xcomp _ _ 50 of of ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 51 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 53 det:predet _ _ 52 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 53 nmod:poss _ _ 53 doings doing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | letters *= letter* | one of the Queen's maids | | last | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 2 | **wait** | to-infinitive | letters *= letter* *not said here* | | | Fiordelisa | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon fiordelisa=Location | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | letters *= letter* *not said here* | | Queen | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **pretend** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | letters *= letter* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | letters *= letter* *not said here* | | | | | stupid *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **see** | to-infinitive | letters *= letter* *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **hear** | infinitive | letters *= letter* *not said here* | nothing | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | | 8 | **is** | past | Queen | | | | day | watch *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **keep** | infinitive | Queen *not said here* | the Queen | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **inform** *speech: other* | participle | the Queen *not said here* | | | | | of Queen's doings | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent of doing=Topic | 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 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/3/115/) - next →: [sentence 117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/3/117/) - ↑ back to [The Blue Bird, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/3/)