--- title: Then he took the grey goose by her sleeve, And said: "Madam Grey Goo… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then he took the grey goose by her sleeve, And said: "Madam Grey Goose, by your leave I'll take you away without reprieve, And carry you back to my den-o!" Who acts: rest. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, with its dependency tree and the p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/31/60/) [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/) / [More English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/) / [More English Fairy Tales, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/31/) / 60 # More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 60 Then he took the grey goose by her sleeve, And said: "Madam Grey Goose, by your leave I'll take you away without reprieve, And carry you back to my den-o!" **Who acts:** rest · **What happens:** take, say, take away, carry back · **To what, where:** grey goose, you, den o · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest), 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:pg14241:31:60 # text = Then he took the grey goose by her sleeve, And said: "Madam Grey Goose, by your leave I'll take you away without reprieve, And carry you back to my den-o!" 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take 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 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 goose goose NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 sleeve sleeve NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 And and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 Madam Madam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 Grey Grey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 Goose Goose PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 leave leave NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 away away ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 27 without without ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 reprieve reprieve NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 And and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 back back ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 36 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 o o NOUN NN _ 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | rest | | the grey goose | | then | by farmer's sleeve | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument goose=Destination | | 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | rest *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **take away** *in a quote* | future | rest | you | | | | by your leave; without reprieve; away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 4 | **carry back** *in a quote* | infinitive | rest *not said here* | you | | my den o | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to o=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:** «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 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/31/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/31/61/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/31/)