--- title: When she wished to get on her horse Falada again, the waiting-maid c… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When she wished to get on her horse Falada again, the waiting-maid called out: “I mean to ride Falada: you must mount my beast”; and this too she had to submit to. Who acts: Princess, you, this. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl, with its dependency tree and the prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/37/21/) [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 Goose-girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/37/) / 21 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 21 When she wished to get on her horse Falada again, the waiting-maid called out: “I mean to ride Falada: you must mount my beast”; and this too she had to submit to. **Who acts:** Princess, you, this · **What happens:** wish, get, call out, mean, ride, mount · **To what, where:** waiting maid, Falada, beast · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Princess, you, this), 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:pg503:37:21 # text = When she wished to get on her horse Falada again, the waiting-maid called out: “I mean to ride Falada: you must mount my beast”; and this too she had to submit to. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 Falada Falada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 10 again again ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 waiting waiting NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 maid maid NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 16 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 17 out out ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 18 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 “ " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 ride ride VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 Falada Falada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 mount mount VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 29 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ” " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 34 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 37 nsubj _ _ 35 too too ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 submit submit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wish** | past | Princess | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* | the waiting maid | | | again | on Princess's horse | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on horse=Source | | 3 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle | | the waiting maid *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | Princess | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **ride** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* | Falada | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent falada=Theme | | 6 | **mount** *in a quote* | must | you | my beast | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Patient | | 7 | **have** | past | this | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **submit** | to-infinitive | this *not said here* | | | | | | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/37/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/37/22/) - ↑ back to [The Goose-girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/37/)