--- title: So when the bride had finished drinking, and would have got upon Fal… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: So when the bride had finished drinking, and would have got upon Falada again, the maid said, "I shall ride upon Falada, and you may have my horse instead;" so she was forced to give up her horse, and soon afterwards to take off her royal clothes, and put on her maid's shabby ones. Who acts: maid, y --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/6/20/) [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/) / [Grimm's Fairy Stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/) / [The Goose-girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/6/) / 20 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 20 So when the bride had finished drinking, and would have got upon Falada again, the maid said, "I shall ride upon Falada, and you may have my horse instead;" so she was forced to give up her horse, and soon afterwards to take off her royal clothes, and put on her maid's shabby ones. **Who acts:** maid, you · **What happens:** finish, get, say, ride, have, force · **To what, where:** bride, horse, maid, royal clothes · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid, you), 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:pg11027:6:20 # text = So when the bride had finished drinking, and would have got upon Falada again, the maid said, "I shall ride upon Falada, and you may have my horse instead;" so she was forced to give up her horse, and soon afterwards to take off her royal clothes, and put on her maid's shabby ones. 1 So so ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 drinking drinking NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 aux _ _ 12 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 parataxis _ _ 13 upon upon ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Falada Falada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 again again ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 maid maid NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 ride ride VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 ccomp _ _ 25 upon upon ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Falada Falada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 32 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 instead instead ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ; ; PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ _ 37 so so ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 38 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 forced force VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ _ 43 up up ADP RP _ 42 compound:prt _ _ 44 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 48 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 49 advmod _ _ 49 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 50 to to PART TO _ 51 mark _ _ 51 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 49 advcl _ _ 52 off off ADP RP _ 51 compound:prt _ _ 53 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 55 nmod:poss _ _ 54 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 55 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 51 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 58 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 conj _ _ 59 on on ADP IN _ 64 case _ _ 60 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 61 nmod:poss _ _ 61 maid maid NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 62 's 's PART POS _ 61 case _ _ 63 shabby shabby ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 64 amod _ _ 64 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 58 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 65 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **finish** | past · perfect · passive | | the bride | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **get** | would · perfect | | | | | again | upon Falada | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the maid | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **ride** *in a quote* | shall | the maid *= maid* | | | | | upon Falada | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **have** *in a quote* | may | you | my horse | | | | instead *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | | 6 | **force** | past · passive | | maid | | | | afterwards *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **give up** | to-infinitive | maid *not said here* | maid's horse | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Source | | 8 | **take off** | to-infinitive | | maid's royal clothes | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme | | 9 | **put** | participle | | | | | | on maid's maid's shabby ones | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on one=Destination | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/6/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/6/21/) - ↑ back to [The Goose-girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/6/)