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title: “Get away, old witch!” they cried, “you will bring us bad luck”; but… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Get away, old witch!” they cried, “you will bring us bad luck”; but the old woman stood firm, and declared that she alone knew where to find the maiden. Who acts: heralds, you, old woman, woman. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, with its depende
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 48

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“Get away, old witch!” they cried, “you will bring us bad luck”; but the old woman stood firm, and declared that she alone knew where to find the maiden.

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**Who acts:** heralds, you, old woman, woman · **What happens:** get away, cry, bring, stand, declare, know · **To what, where:** old witch, bad luck, us, maiden · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heralds, you, old woman, woman), 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:pg2435:10:48
# text = “Get away, old witch!” they cried, “you will bring us bad luck”; but the old woman stood firm, and declared that she alone knew where to find the maiden.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
16	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
26	firm	firm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
34	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	36	advmod	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get away** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | old witch |  |  |  | away *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | heralds *= herald* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bring** *in a quote* | future | you | bad luck | us |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination luck=Theme |
| 4 | **stand** | past | the old woman |  |  |  |  | firm *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the old woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **know** | past | woman |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **find** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* | the maiden |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Topic |

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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:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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