--- title: And the princess with her magic wand touched the wrinkled old women,… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And the princess with her magic wand touched the wrinkled old women, and left them the withered roots they really were, to be thrown upon the rubbish heap; and with light feet skipped off across to the meadow to take possession of the freshly filled basket. Who acts: princess. A sentence of «The Bro --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/31/67/) [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 Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [The Brown Fairy Book, part 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/31/) / 67 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 67 And the princess with her magic wand touched the wrinkled old women, and left them the withered roots they really were, to be thrown upon the rubbish heap; and with light feet skipped off across to the meadow to take possession of the freshly filled basket. **Who acts:** princess · **What happens:** touch, wrinkle, leave, wither, throw, skip off · **To what, where:** wrinkled old women, youth, rubbish heap, light feet, meadow, possession This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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:pg3282:31:67 # text = And the princess with her magic wand touched the wrinkled old women, and left them the withered roots they really were, to be thrown upon the rubbish heap; and with light feet skipped off across to the meadow to take possession of the freshly filled basket. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 magic magic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 wand wand NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 wrinkled wrinkle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 11 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 withered wither VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 amod _ _ 19 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 really really ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 thrown throw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 27 upon upon ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 rubbish rubbish NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 heap heap NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 parataxis _ _ 36 skipped skip VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl _ _ 37 off off ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 across across ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 meadow meadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 acl _ _ 44 possession possession NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 47 freshly freshly ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 49 amod _ _ 49 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **touch** | past | the princess with princess's magic wand | the wrinkled old women | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme woman=Co-Theme | | 2 | **wrinkle** | participle | | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **leave** | past | the princess with princess's magic wand *not said here* | youth | | | | | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme root=Attribute | | 4 | **wither** | participle | | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **throw** | to-infinitive · passive | the princess with princess's magic wand *not said here* | | | the rubbish heap | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: upon heap=Destination | | 6 | **skip off** | participle | | light feet *not said here* | | the meadow | | across *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to meadow=Destination | | 7 | **take** | to-infinitive | | possession of the filled basket | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme | | 8 | **fill** | participle | | | | | | freshly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 9 | **possess** | | | the filled basket | | | | | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/31/66/) - next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/31/68/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/31/)