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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 185

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So he brought the false bride back to her home, and said, "This is not the right bride; let the other sister try and put on the slipper."

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**Who acts:** prince, This, other sister · **What happens:** bring, say, not be, let, try, put · **To what, where:** false bride, right bride, other sister, slipper · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, This, other sister), 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:pg11027:15:185
# text = So he brought the false bride back to her home, and said, "This is not the right bride; let the other sister try and put on the slipper."
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
23	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	slipper	slipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | prince | the false bride |  |  |  | to bride's home | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | This | the right bride |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the other sister |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **try** *in a quote* | infinitive | the other sister *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive | the other sister *not said here* |  |  | the slipper |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on slipper=Destination |

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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:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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