--- title: “But you must wait till I can get a grand escort for you,” said the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “But you must wait till I can get a grand escort for you,” said the King. Who acts: you, King. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/41/) [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 Story of Pretty Goldilocks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/) / 41 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 41 “But you must wait till I can get a grand escort for you,” said the King. **Who acts:** you, King · **What happens:** wait, get, say · **To what, where:** grand escort · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, King), 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:pg503:28:41 # text = “But you must wait till I can get a grand escort for you,” said the King. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 ccomp _ _ 6 till till SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 grand grand ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 escort escort NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 17 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** *in a quote* | must | you | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **get** *in a quote* | can | the King *= king* | a grand escort | | | | for you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent escort=Theme for you=Beneficiary | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the King | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/42/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Pretty Goldilocks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/)