---
title: At nightfall they reached an inn, which they entered, and the servan… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At nightfall they reached an inn, which they entered, and the servant gave the landlord the raven to dress for their supper. Who acts: girths, servant. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/47/22/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 Riddle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/47/) / 22

# The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 22

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
At nightfall they reached an inn, which they entered, and the servant gave the landlord the raven to dress for their supper.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** girths, servant · **What happens:** reach, enter, give, dress · **To what, where:** inn, nightfall, landlord

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girths, servant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg7277:47:22
# text = At nightfall they reached an inn, which they entered, and the servant gave the landlord the raven to dress for their supper.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	landlord	landlord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	dress	dress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | girths *= girth* | a inn |  | nightfall |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent inn=Theme at nightfall=Asset |
| 2 | **enter** | past | girths *= girth* | a inn |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Destination |
| 3 | **give** | past | the servant | the landlord |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent landlord=Recipient raven=Theme |
| 4 | **dress** | to-infinitive | the servant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for girths's supper | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/47/21/)
- next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/47/23/)
- ↑ back to [The Riddle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/47/)