--- title: Keep her in prison, and feed her on bread and water for a little whi… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Keep her in prison, and feed her on bread and water for a little while, and then, if she still says she will not marry you, have her head cut off, to teach other people that you mean to be obeyed. Who acts: you, girl, head, other people. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Dar --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/69/) [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/) / [Prince Darling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/) / 69 # The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 69 Keep her in prison, and feed her on bread and water for a little while, and then, if she still says she will not marry you, have her head cut off, to teach other people that you mean to be obeyed. **Who acts:** you, girl, head, other people · **What happens:** keep, feed, say, not marry, have, cut off · **To what, where:** girl, prison, bread, you, head, other people · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, girl, head, other people), 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:pg503:39:69 # text = Keep her in prison, and feed her on bread and water for a little while, and then, if she still says she will not marry you, have her head cut off, to teach other people that you mean to be obeyed. 1 Keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 feed feed VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 8 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 19 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 if if SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 still still ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 32 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 xcomp _ _ 35 off off ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 teach teach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ 39 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 41 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 42 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 acl:relcl _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 45 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 46 aux:pass _ _ 46 obeyed obey VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | girl | | prison | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in prison=Location | | 2 | **feed** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | girl | bread and water | while | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | girl | | | | still | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **marry** | future | girl | you | | | then | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | | 5 | **have** | present | | girl's head | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **cut off** | participle | girl's head *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 7 | **teach** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | other people | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | | 8 | **mean** | present | other people | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **obey** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | | | | | | | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP» | 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 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/70/) - ↑ back to [Prince Darling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/)