--- title: On the second night the Princess sent her lady-in-waiting, hoping th… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: On the second night the Princess sent her lady-in-waiting, hoping that she might succeed better, but the servant took away her mantle and chased her away also. Who acts: Princess, poison, servant. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle, with its dependency tree and the pragm --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/47/40/) [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/) / 40 # The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 40 On the second night the Princess sent her lady-in-waiting, hoping that she might succeed better, but the servant took away her mantle and chased her away also. **Who acts:** Princess, poison, servant · **What happens:** send, wait, hope, succeed, take away, chase away · **To what, where:** lady, mantle, poison 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 (Princess, poison, servant), 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:pg7277:47:40 # text = On the second night the Princess sent her lady-in-waiting, hoping that she might succeed better, but the servant took away her mantle and chased her away also. 1 On on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 amod _ _ 4 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 in in SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 hoping hope VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 succeed succeed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 20 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 26 away away ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 mantle mantle NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 chased chase VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 31 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 away away ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 33 also also ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | the Princess | poison's lady | | | night | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme | | 2 | **wait** | gerund | the Princess *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **hope** | gerund | the Princess *not said here* | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **succeed** | might | poison | | | | | good *property* | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **take away** | past | the servant | poison's mantle | | | | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mantle=Theme | | 6 | **chase away** | past | the servant *not said here* | poison | | | | away *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | 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 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/47/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/47/41/) - ↑ back to [The Riddle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/47/)