--- title: The old King bade him go and drive forth his flock as usual next day… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The old King bade him go and drive forth his flock as usual next day; and when morning came he himself took up his position behind the dark gate, and heard how the goose-girl greeted Falada. Who acts: Curdken, morning, goose girl. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl, w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/37/70/) [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/) / 70 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 70 The old King bade him go and drive forth his flock as usual next day; and when morning came he himself took up his position behind the dark gate, and heard how the goose-girl greeted Falada. **Who acts:** Curdken, morning, goose girl · **What happens:** go, drive, come, take up, hear, greet · **To what, where:** old King bade, flock, position, dark gate, Falada · **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 (Curdken, morning, goose girl), 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:pg503:37:70 # text = The old King bade him go and drive forth his flock as usual next day; and when morning came he himself took up his position behind the dark gate, and heard how the goose-girl greeted Falada. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 bade bade NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 drive drive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 9 forth forth ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 flock flock NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 as as ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 usual usual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 18 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 19 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 21 nmod:unmarked _ _ 23 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 position position NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 behind behind ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 34 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 39 advmod _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 goose goose NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 greeted greet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 ccomp _ _ 40 Falada Falada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | Curdken | the old King bade | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **drive** | present | Curdken *not said here* | Curdken's flock | | | day | forth *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme flock=Trajectory | | 3 | **come** | past | morning | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **take up** | past | Curdken | Curdken's position | | the dark gate | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Theme | | 5 | **hear** | past | Curdken *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **greet** *speech: greet* | past | the goose girl | | Falada | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent falada=Theme | 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 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/37/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/37/71/) - ↑ back to [The Goose-girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/37/)