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title: But when the witch wife saw them she ran away with her daughter, and… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But when the witch wife saw them she ran away with her daughter, and if she has not stopped she is running still, though at a great age. Who acts: witch wife, wife. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 193

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But when the witch wife saw them she ran away with her daughter, and if she has not stopped she is running still, though at a great age.

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**Who acts:** witch wife, wife · **What happens:** see, run away, not stop, run · **To what, where:** shapes, great age

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch wife, wife), 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:pg540:14:193
# text = But when the witch wife saw them she ran away with her daughter, and if she has not stopped she is running still, though at a great age.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
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	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
24	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the witch wife | shapes *= shape* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 2 | **run away** | past | wife |  |  |  |  | with wife's daughter; away *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with daughter=Material |
| 3 | **not** **stop** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | wife |  |  |  | at a great age |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **run** | present · progressive | wife |  |  |  | still |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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