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title: 'I hear,' he said, 'that the old witch on the island has a goat with… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'I hear,' he said, 'that the old witch on the island has a goat with golden horns from which hang bells that tinkle the sweetest music. Who acts: I, king, old witch, golden horns. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 103

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'I hear,' he said, 'that the old witch on the island has a goat with golden horns from which hang bells that tinkle the sweetest music.

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**Who acts:** I, king, old witch, golden horns, bells · **What happens:** hear, say, have, hang, tinkle · **To what, where:** goat, bells, sweetest music · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, king, old witch, golden horns), 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:pg3027:16:103
# text = 'I hear,' he said, 'that the old witch on the island has a goat with golden horns from which hang bells that tinkle the sweetest music.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	hang	hang	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	tinkle	tinkle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	amod	_	_
31	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | present | the old witch on the island | a goat |  |  |  | with golden horns | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Patient |
| 4 | **hang** | present | golden horns | bells |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=Patient |
| 5 | **tinkle** | present | bells | the sweetest music |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location music=Theme |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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