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title: The old woman who lived in the hut beckoned to him to enter, and har… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The old woman who lived in the hut beckoned to him to enter, and hardly was he inside when he cried again: “O mother, can you tell me anything of the Sister of the Sun?” Who acts: old woman, you. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, with its dependency 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 44

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The old woman who lived in the hut beckoned to him to enter, and hardly was he inside when he cried again: “O mother, can you tell me anything of the Sister of the Sun?”

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**Who acts:** old woman, you · **What happens:** live, beckon, enter, be, tell · **To what, where:** hut, head, anything, old woman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (old woman, you), 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:pg3282:24:44
# text = The old woman who lived in the hut beckoned to him to enter, and hardly was he inside when he cried again: “O mother, can you tell me anything of the Sister of the Sun?”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	beckoned	beckon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	27	discourse	_	_
27	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	parataxis	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	iobj	_	_
33	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	31	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the old woman |  |  | the hut |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location |
| 2 | **beckon** | participle |  | the hut *not said here* | head |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 3 | **enter** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **be** *speech: express* | past | the old woman |  |  |  | again | mother *obl*; cry, hardly, inside *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | can | you | anything | the old woman *= woman* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient anything=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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