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title: "Oven, oven, hide me, So the old witch can't find me; If she does sh… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Oven, oven, hide me, So the old witch can't find me; If she does she'll break my bones, And bury me under the marble stones." Who acts: oven, old witch, Witch. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 115

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"Oven, oven, hide me, So the old witch can't find me; If she does she'll break my bones, And bury me under the marble stones."

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**Who acts:** oven, old witch, Witch · **What happens:** hide, not find, break, bury · **To what, where:** Witch, bones, marble stones

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oven, old witch, Witch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg14241:23:115
# text = "Oven, oven, hide me, So the old witch can't find me; If she does she'll break my bones, And bury me under the marble stones."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oven	oven	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	So	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	bury	bury	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	under	under	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** *in a quote* | infinitive | oven | Witch |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **find** *in a quote* | can | the old witch | Witch |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic |
| 3 | **break** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Witch | my bones |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Patient |
| 4 | **bury** *in a quote* | infinitive | oven *not said here* | Witch |  | the marble stones |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme under stone=Destination |

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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.

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**Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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