--- title: He brought me this child,” says she, “I do not know where he got it,… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He brought me this child,” says she, “I do not know where he got it, and ordered me to make it into a pie, and I cannot help crying at the command.” Who acts: person, I. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., with its dependency tree and the pragm --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/8/113/) [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 Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/8/) / 113 # The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 113 He brought me this child,” says she, “I do not know where he got it, and ordered me to make it into a pie, and I cannot help crying at the command.” **Who acts:** person, I · **What happens:** bring, say, not know, get, order, make · **To what, where:** child, me, woman, castle, pie, command · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person, I), 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:pg540:8:113 # text = He brought me this child,” says she, “I do not know where he got it, and ordered me to make it into a pie, and I cannot help crying at the command.” 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 det _ _ 5 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 8 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 “ " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 16 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 18 advmod _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 23 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 into into ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 pie pie NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 36 crying cry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 xcomp _ _ 37 at at ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 command command NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ” " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | past | person | this child | me | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination child=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | person *not said here* | woman | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | I | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **get** | past | person | castle | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 5 | **order** | past | I *not said here* | | me | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | castle | | a pie | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent it=Material into pie=Product | | 7 | **not** **help** | can | I | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 8 | **cry** *speech: express* *not said to happen* | gerund | I *not said here* | | | the command | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at command=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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 112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/8/112/) - next →: [sentence 114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/8/114/) - ↑ back to [The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/8/)