--- title: Bring your bonny bridegroom to my cell," said she to the young bride… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Bring your bonny bridegroom to my cell," said she to the young bride soon after her marriage; "he shall see what comes o' spinning, and never will he tie you to the spinning-wheel." Who acts: you, bridegroom, troth, bride. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bridegroom, troth, bride), 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:pg14241:31:37 # text = Bring your bonny bridegroom to my cell," said she to the young bride soon after her marriage; "he shall see what comes o' spinning, and never will he tie you to the spinning-wheel." 1 Bring bring VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 bonny bonny NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 bridegroom bridegroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 cell cell NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 17 after after ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 marriage marriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 25 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 26 nsubj _ _ 26 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 ccomp _ _ 27 o o ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 29 spinning spin VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 33 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 tie tie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 spinning spinning NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | imperative | you *not said here* | your bonny bridegroom | | my cell | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bridegroom=Theme to cell=Destination | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | bridegroom | | the young bride | | after bride's marriage | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to bride=Recipient | | 3 | **see** | shall | troth | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **come** | present | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **spin** | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **not** **tie** | future | troth | you | | | | to the spinning wheel | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient to wheel=Co-Patient | | 7 | **marry** *in a quote* | | bride | | | | | | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/31/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/31/38/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/31/)