---
title: “We have a gate-keeper, and a hall porter, and servants of all sorts… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “We have a gate-keeper, and a hall porter, and servants of all sorts in the palace; the only person we have not got is a goose-boy. Who acts: We, only person. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/13/7/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/13/) / 7

# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 7

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
“We have a gate-keeper, and a hall porter, and servants of all sorts in the palace; the only person we have not got is a goose-boy.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** We, only person · **What happens:** have, not get, be · **To what, where:** gate keeper, only person, goose boy

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, only person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg2435:13:7
# text = “We have a gate-keeper, and a hall porter, and servants of all sorts in the palace; the only person we have not got is a goose-boy.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	parataxis	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	porter	porter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
26	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | We | a gate keeper |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent keeper=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | we | the only person *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the only person | a goose boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/13/6/)
- next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/13/8/)
- ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/13/)