--- title: He found not a soul on board, but there was a very cosy little bed i… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He found not a soul on board, but there was a very cosy little bed in the cabin, and an ample supply of all sorts of good things to eat and drink, which he made up his mind to enjoy until something new happened. Who acts: Prince, cosy little bed, something. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by An --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/37/17/) [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 Vivien and the Princess Placida…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/37/) / 17 # The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 17 He found not a soul on board, but there was a very cosy little bed in the cabin, and an ample supply of all sorts of good things to eat and drink, which he made up his mind to enjoy until something new happened. **Who acts:** Prince, cosy little bed, something · **What happens:** not find, be, eat, drink, make up, enjoy · **To what, where:** soul, board, mind, good things This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (Prince, cosy little bed, something), 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:pg7277:37:17 # text = He found not a soul on board, but there was a very cosy little bed in the cabin, and an ample supply of all sorts of good things to eat and drink, which he made up his mind to enjoy until something new happened. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 11 expl _ _ 11 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 13 very very ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 cosy cosy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 cabin cabin NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 ample ample ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 supply supply NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 27 det _ _ 27 sorts sort NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 ccomp _ _ 39 up up ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 enjoy enjoy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 advcl _ _ 44 until until SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 45 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 47 nsubj _ _ 46 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 47 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **find** | past | Prince | a soul | | board | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Topic | | 2 | **be** | past | a cosy little bed in the cabin | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **drink** | infinitive | Prince *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **make up** | past | | Prince's mind | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | | 6 | **enjoy** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **happen** | past | something | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **sort** | | | good things | | | | | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 9 | **mind** | | Prince | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/37/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/37/18/) - ↑ back to [Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/37/)