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title: ‘Well, little kitchen-maid, it is a good thing that the King always… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Well, little kitchen-maid, it is a good thing that the King always takes a sleeping draught, for if not he would be kept awake all night by your sighing and lamenting.’ Who acts: maid, King, sighing. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4, with its dependency tre
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 41

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‘Well, little kitchen-maid, it is a good thing that the King always takes a sleeping draught, for if not he would be kept awake all night by your sighing and lamenting.’

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**Who acts:** maid, King, sighing · **What happens:** be, take, not keep, lament · **To what, where:** good thing, sleeping draught, King

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid, King, sighing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg7277:5:41
# text = ‘Well, little kitchen-maid, it is a good thing that the King always takes a sleeping draught, for if not he would be kept awake all night by your sighing and lamenting.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	18	advmod	_	_
18	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	draught	draught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
30	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	sighing	sighing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	lamenting	lament	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | maid | a good thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | present | the King | a sleeping draught |  |  |  | always *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | would · passive | your sighing | King |  |  | night | awake *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 4 | **lament** | gerund | your sighing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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**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.

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