--- title: The wicked stepmother, however, was a witch, and had witnessed the d… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: The wicked stepmother, however, was a witch, and had witnessed the departure of the two children: so, sneaking after them secretly, as is the habit of witches, she had enchanted all the springs in the forest. Who acts: two children. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Br --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/7/8/) [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/) / [Grimm's Fairy Stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/) / [The Little Brother and Sister](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/7/) / 8 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 8 The wicked stepmother, however, was a witch, and had witnessed the departure of the two children: so, sneaking after them secretly, as is the habit of witches, she had enchanted all the springs in the forest. **Who acts:** two children · **What happens:** be, witness, sneak, enchant, depart · **To what, where:** witch, departure, stepmother, forest This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two children), 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:pg11027:7:8 # text = The wicked stepmother, however, was a witch, and had witnessed the departure of the two children: so, sneaking after them secretly, as is the habit of witches, she had enchanted all the springs in the forest. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 stepmother stepmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 however however ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 witnessed witness VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 departure departure NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 sneaking sneak VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 24 after after ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 26 secretly secretly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 as as ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 habit habit NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 witches witch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 enchanted enchant VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 conj _ _ 38 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 40 det:predet _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 springs spring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | a witch | | | | however *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **witness** | past · perfect | | the departure of the two children | | | | | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent departure=Beneficiary | | 3 | **sneak** | gerund | | | | | after children *= child* | secretly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | as the habit; of witches | tree rules | | 5 | **enchant** | past · perfect · passive | | stepmother | | the forest | spring | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 6 | **depart** | | the two children | | | | | | nom departure «act intransitive»: of=agent | 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:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/7/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/7/9/) - ↑ back to [The Little Brother and Sister](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/7/)