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title: The next morning the mother of the Wind told her that her husband wa… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 153

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The next morning the mother of the Wind told her that her husband was living in a thick wood, so thick that no axe had been able to cut a way through it; here he had built himself a sort of house by placing trunks of trees together and fastening them with withes and here he lived alone, shunning human kind.

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**Who acts:** mother, husband, axe · **What happens:** tell, live, be, cut, build, place · **To what, where:** wind, thick wood, way, axe, husband, trunks · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, husband, axe), 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:pg540:12:153
# text = The next morning the mother of the Wind told her that her husband was living in a thick wood, so thick that no axe had been able to cut a way through it; here he had built himself a sort of house by placing trunks of trees together and fastening them with withes and here he lived alone, shunning human kind.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	ccomp	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	cop	_	_
28	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	advcl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	through	through	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
36	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	39	advmod	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	parataxis	_	_
40	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	39	obj	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
45	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
46	placing	place	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	advcl	_	_
47	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	_
50	together	together	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	fastening	fasten	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	46	conj	_	_
53	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	with	with	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	withes	withe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
57	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	59	advmod	_	_
58	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
59	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
60	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
62	shunning	shun	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	59	advcl	_	_
63	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the mother of the Wind |  | wind |  | morning |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **live** | past · progressive | mother's husband |  |  | a thick wood |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past · perfect | no axe |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **cut** | to-infinitive | no axe *not said here* | a way |  | axe |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product |
| 5 | **build** | past · perfect | husband | husband |  | here |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary sort=Product |
| 6 | **place** | gerund | husband *not said here* | trunks of trees |  |  |  | together *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Theme |
| 7 | **fasten** | gerund | husband *not said here* | trunks *= trunk* |  |  |  | with withes | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Patient with withe=Co-Patient |
| 8 | **live** | past | husband |  |  | here |  | alone *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **shun** | gerund | husband *not said here* | human kind |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent kind=Location |
| 10 | **sort** |  |  | house |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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