--- title: “Oh!” replied the bride, “I brought her with me to keep me company o… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Oh!” replied the bride, “I brought her with me to keep me company on the journey; give the girl something to do, that she may not be idle.” Who acts: bride. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl, 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/pg503/37/29/) [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/) / 29 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 29 “Oh!” replied the bride, “I brought her with me to keep me company on the journey; give the girl something to do, that she may not be idle.” **Who acts:** bride · **What happens:** reply, bring, keep, give, do, not be · **To what, where:** bride, journey, something · **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 (bride), 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:pg503:37:29 # text = “Oh!” replied the bride, “I brought her with me to keep me company on the journey; give the girl something to do, that she may not be idle.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 “ " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 17 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 23 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 23 obj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 32 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 cop _ _ 35 idle idle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the bride | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **bring** *in a quote* | past | the bride *= bride* | | bride | | | with the bride *= bride* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | | 3 | **keep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the bride *= bride* *not said here* | the bride *= bride* | | the journey | | | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme company=Attribute | | 4 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | | something | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | | 5 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | something *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | may | bride | | | | | idle *property* | tree rules | 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 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/37/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/37/30/) - ↑ back to [The Goose-girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/37/)