--- title: One day the Queen gave a large garden-party, and just as the guests… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: One day the Queen gave a large garden-party, and just as the guests were all assembled, and Prince Mirliflor was as usual dividing his attentions between the twelve beauties, a humming of bees was heard. Who acts: Queen, Mirliflor, Prince, bees. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, T --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/8/139/) [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 Enchanted Watch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/8/) / 139 # The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 139 One day the Queen gave a large garden-party, and just as the guests were all assembled, and Prince Mirliflor was as usual dividing his attentions between the twelve beauties, a humming of bees was heard. **Who acts:** Queen, Mirliflor, Prince, bees · **What happens:** give, assemble, divide, hear, attend, hum · **To what, where:** large garden party, guests, attentions, humming This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, Mirliflor, Prince, bees), 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:pg7277:8:139 # text = One day the Queen gave a large garden-party, and just as the guests were all assembled, and Prince Mirliflor was as usual dividing his attentions between the twelve beauties, a humming of bees was heard. 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 7 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 8 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 13 just just ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 14 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 guests guest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 18 all all ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 assembled assemble VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 22 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod:desc _ _ 23 Mirliflor Mirliflor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 25 as as SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 usual usual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 dividing divide VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 attentions attention NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 between between ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 beauties beauty NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 humming humming NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | the Queen | a large garden party | | | day | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Theme | | 2 | **assemble** | past · passive | | the guests | | | | all *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **divide** | past · progressive | Mirliflor Prince | Prince's attentions | | | | between the twelve beauties | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Theme | | 4 | **hear** | past · passive | | a humming of bees | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | | 5 | **attend** | | Prince | | | | | | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **hum** | | bees | | | | | | nom humming «event intransitive»: of=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 138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/8/138/) - next →: [sentence 140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/8/140/) - ↑ back to [The Enchanted Watch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/8/)