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title: But the waiting-maid replied, more haughtily even than before: “If y… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the waiting-maid replied, more haughtily even than before: “If you want a drink, you can dismount and get it; I don’t mean to be your servant.” Who acts: waiting maid, you. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 16

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But the waiting-maid replied, more haughtily even than before: “If you want a drink, you can dismount and get it; I don’t mean to be your servant.”

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**Who acts:** waiting maid, you · **What happens:** reply, want, dismount, get, not mean, be · **To what, where:** drink, servant · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waiting maid, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg503:37:16
# text = But the waiting-maid replied, more haughtily even than before: “If you want a drink, you can dismount and get it; I don’t mean to be your servant.”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	waiting	waiting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	replied	reply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	haughtily	haughtily	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
12	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	dismount	dismount	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	parataxis	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	cop	_	_
34	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | participle | the waiting maid |  |  |  |  | haughtily *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **want** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | a drink |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot drink=Theme |
| 3 | **dismount** *in a quote* | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | drink |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **mean** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the waiting maid *= maid* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | your servant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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.

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