--- title: So the spy was ordered to go back and pretend to sleep as soundly as… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So the spy was ordered to go back and pretend to sleep as soundly as ever, and indeed she went to bed earlier than usual, and snored as naturally as possible, and the poor Princess ran to the window and cried: Who acts: spy, Queen, poor Princess. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/4/15/) [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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/4/) / 15 # The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 15 So the spy was ordered to go back and pretend to sleep as soundly as ever, and indeed she went to bed earlier than usual, and snored as naturally as possible, and the poor Princess ran to the window and cried: **Who acts:** spy, Queen, poor Princess · **What happens:** order, go back, pretend, sleep, go, snore · **To what, where:** spy, bed This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (spy, Queen, poor 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:pg7277:4:15 # text = So the spy was ordered to go back and pretend to sleep as soundly as ever, and indeed she went to bed earlier than usual, and snored as naturally as possible, and the poor Princess ran to the window and cried: 1 So so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 spy spy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 ordered order VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 back back ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 pretend pretend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 as as ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 soundly soundly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 15 as as ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 24 earlier early ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 21 advmod _ _ 25 than than ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 usual usual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 snored snore VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ _ 30 as as ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 naturally naturally ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 32 as as SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 33 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **order** | past · passive | | the spy | | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **go back** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the spy *not said here* | | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **pretend** | infinitive | the spy *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | the spy *not said here* | | | | | soundly *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **go** | past | Queen | | | bed | | early, indeed *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **snore** | participle | Queen *not said here* | | | | | naturally *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **run** | past | the poor Princess | | | | | to the window *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to window=Result | | 8 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the poor Princess *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/4/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/4/16/) - ↑ back to [The Blue Bird, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/4/)