--- title: Then he summoned his son, and revealed to him that he had got the fa… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then he summoned his son, and revealed to him that he had got the false bride, who was nothing but a waiting-maid, while the real one, in the guise of the ex-goose-girl, was standing at his side. Who acts: King, false bride, real one. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-gir --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/37/83/) [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/) / 83 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 83 Then he summoned his son, and revealed to him that he had got the false bride, who was nothing but a waiting-maid, while the real one, in the guise of the ex-goose-girl, was standing at his side. **Who acts:** King, false bride, real one · **What happens:** summon, reveal, get, be, stand · **To what, where:** son, King, false bride, nothing, side 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 (King, false bride, real one), 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:pg503:37:83 # text = Then he summoned his son, and revealed to him that he had got the false bride, who was nothing but a waiting-maid, while the real one, in the guise of the ex-goose-girl, was standing at his side. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 summoned summon VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 revealed reveal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 17 appos _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 waiting waiting NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 maid maid NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 28 while while SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 guise guise NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 appos _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 ex-goose-girl ex-goose-girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 40 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 42 at at ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **summon** | past | King | | King's son | | then | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Recipient | | 2 | **reveal** | participle | King *not said here* | | King | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | | 3 | **get** | past · perfect | King | the false bride | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bride=Stimulus | | 4 | **is a** | past | the false bride | nothing | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **stand** | past · progressive | the real one | | | King's side | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at side=Location | 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 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/37/82/) - next →: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/37/84/) - ↑ back to [The Goose-girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/37/)