---
title: Before leaving he promised to return and fetch her to his father’s c… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Before leaving he promised to return and fetch her to his father’s court, where he would make her his bride. Who acts: prince. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/19/)

<!-- 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 Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/) / 19

# The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 19

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Before leaving he promised to return and fetch her to his father’s court, where he would make her his bride.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** leave, promise, return, fetch, make · **To what, where:** horse, bride

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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:pg503:26:19
# text = Before leaving he promised to return and fetch her to his father’s court, where he would make her his bride.
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **return** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fetch** | infinitive | prince *not said here* | horse |  |  |  | to prince's father's court | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | would | prince | prince's bride | horse |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary bride=Product |

<!-- .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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/18/)
- next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/20/)
- ↑ back to [The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/)