--- title: ‘Ay, ay, your own wife is not at home,’ said the widow woman; ‘she i… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Ay, ay, your own wife is not at home,’ said the widow woman; ‘she is living like a reindeer in the wood; you have the witch’s daughter for a wife now, and the witch herself for a mother-in-law.’ Who acts: own wife, widow woman, woman, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (own wife, widow woman, woman, you), 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:pg540:14:149 # text = ‘Ay, ay, your own wife is not at home,’ said the widow woman; ‘she is living like a reindeer in the wood; you have the witch’s daughter for a wife now, and the witch herself for a mother-in-law.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Ay ay INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 ay ay INTJ UH _ 12 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 widow widow NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 20 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 living live VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 24 like like ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 reindeer reindeer NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ’s 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 32 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 parataxis _ _ 45 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 44 nmod:unmarked _ _ 46 for for ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 52 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 in in ADP IN _ 52 case _ SpaceAfter=No 51 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 52 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 44 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | your own wife | | | home | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the widow woman | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **live** | present · progressive | woman | | | the wood | | like a reindeer | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location | | 4 | **have** | present | you | the witch's daughter | | | now | for a wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 148](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/14/148/) - next →: [sentence 150](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/14/150/) - ↑ back to [The Wonderful Birch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/14/)