--- title: When the white doe entered the forest next morning, she had not made… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When the white doe entered the forest next morning, she had not made up her mind whether she would go and meet the prince, or whether she would shun him, and hide in thickets of which he knew nothing. Who acts: white doe, Eglantine, doe. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/24/59/) [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 Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/24/) / 59 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 59 When the white doe entered the forest next morning, she had not made up her mind whether she would go and meet the prince, or whether she would shun him, and hide in thickets of which he knew nothing. **Who acts:** white doe, Eglantine, doe · **What happens:** enter, not make up, go, meet, shun, hide · **To what, where:** forest, mind, prince, doe, thickets, nothing This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (white doe, Eglantine, doe), 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:pg3027:24:59 # text = When the white doe entered the forest next morning, she had not made up her mind whether she would go and meet the prince, or whether she would shun him, and hide in thickets of which he knew nothing. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 doe doe NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 shun shun VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 thickets thicket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 obl _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 42 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **enter** | past | the white doe | the forest | | | morning | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=Destination | | 2 | **not** **make up** | past · perfect | Eglantine | Eglantine's mind | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | | 3 | **go** | would | Eglantine | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **meet** | infinitive | Eglantine *not said here* | the prince | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Co-Agent | | 5 | **shun** | would | Eglantine | doe | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent he=Location | | 6 | **hide** | present | Eglantine *not said here* | | | thickets | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in thicket=Location | | 7 | **know** | past | doe | nothing | | | | of thickets | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | | 8 | **mind** | | Eglantine | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/24/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/24/60/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/24/)