--- title: He then put her down on the queen's lap, where she purred and played… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He then put her down on the queen's lap, where she purred and played with her majesty's hand, and then purred herself to sleep. Who acts: captain, queen. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/76/) [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/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [Whittington and His Cat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/) / 76 # English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 76 He then put her down on the queen's lap, where she purred and played with her majesty's hand, and then purred herself to sleep. **Who acts:** captain, queen · **What happens:** put down, purr, play, sleep · **To what, where:** queen, lap This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captain, queen), 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:pg7439:37:76 # text = He then put her down on the queen's lap, where she purred and played with her majesty's hand, and then purred herself to sleep. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 3 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 down down ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 lap lap NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 14 advmod _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 purred purr VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 25 purred purr VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 26 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 25 obj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put down** | past | captain | queen | | the queen's lap | then | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme on lap=Destination | | 2 | **purr** | past | queen | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **play** | past | queen *not said here* | | | | | with queen's majesty's hand | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with hand=Theme | | 4 | **purr** | past | queen *not said here* | queen | | | then | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic | | 5 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | queen *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/75/) - next →: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/77/) - ↑ back to [Whittington and His Cat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/)