--- title: But the old King had no work for her, and couldn’t think of anything… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But the old King had no work for her, and couldn’t think of anything; so he said, “I’ve a small boy who looks after the geese, she’d better help him.” Who acts: old King, King, small boy, bride. 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/pg503/37/30/) [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/) / 30 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 30 But the old King had no work for her, and couldn’t think of anything; so he said, “I’ve a small boy who looks after the geese, she’d better help him.” **Who acts:** old King, King, small boy, bride, better · **What happens:** have, not think, say, look, help · **To what, where:** work, small boy, King · **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 (old King, King, small boy, 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:pg503:37:30 # text = But the old King had no work for her, and couldn’t think of anything; so he said, “I’ve a small boy who looks after the geese, she’d better help him.” 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 7 det _ _ 7 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 13 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 “ " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ’ve have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 after after ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 geese goose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ’d have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 36 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 37 nsubj _ _ 37 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 ccomp _ _ 38 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | the old King | no work | | | | for bride | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient | | 2 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | could | the old King *not said here* | | | | | of anything | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | King | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | King | a small boy | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient | | 5 | **look** *in a quote* | present | a small boy | | | | after the geese | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **have** *in a quote* | past | bride | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **help** *in a quote* | infinitive | better | | King | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | 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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/37/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/37/31/) - ↑ back to [The Goose-girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/37/)