---
title: ‘Yes, indeed,’ said the cook, weighing the duck in his hand, ‘she ce… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Yes, indeed,’ said the cook, weighing the duck in his hand, ‘she certainly has spared no pains to stuff herself well, and must have been waiting for the spit for some time.’ Who acts: Queen. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake, with its dependency tree and the pragm
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/50/20/)

<!-- 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 White Snake](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/50/) / 20

# The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 20

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
‘Yes, indeed,’ said the cook, weighing the duck in his hand, ‘she certainly has spared no pains to stuff herself well, and must have been waiting for the spit for some time.’

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Queen · **What happens:** say, weigh, spare, stuff, wait · **To what, where:** cook, duck, hand, pains, Queen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen), 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:pg7277:50:20
# text = ‘Yes, indeed,’ said the cook, weighing the duck in his hand, ‘she certainly has spared no pains to stuff herself well, and must have been waiting for the spit for some time.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	weighing	weigh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	spared	spare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	stuff	stuff	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
27	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	obj	_	_
28	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
32	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux	_	_
33	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	aux	_	_
34	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	spit	spit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	40	det	_	_
40	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the cook |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cook=Topic |
| 2 | **weigh** | gerund |  | the duck |  | haste's hand |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme duck=Value |
| 3 | **spare** | present · perfect | Queen | no pains |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent pain=Asset |
| 4 | **stuff** | to-infinitive | Queen *not said here* | Queen |  |  |  | well *property* | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent herself=Theme |
| 5 | **wait** | must · perfect · progressive |  |  |  |  | time | for the spit | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

<!-- .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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/50/19/)
- next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/50/21/)
- ↑ back to [The White Snake](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/50/)