--- title: He led her into the hall, where she was highly honoured; but the wit… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He led her into the hall, where she was highly honoured; but the witch’s daughter sucked the bones under the table, and crouching at the people’s feet she got an eye knocked out, poor thing! Who acts: Prince, daughter, girl, eye. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/14/94/) [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 Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [The Wonderful Birch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/14/) / 94 # The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 94 He led her into the hall, where she was highly honoured; but the witch’s daughter sucked the bones under the table, and crouching at the people’s feet she got an eye knocked out, poor thing! **Who acts:** Prince, daughter, girl, eye · **What happens:** lead, honour, suck, crouch, get, knock out · **To what, where:** girl, hall, bones, table, feet, eye 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 (Prince, daughter, girl, eye), 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:pg540:14:94 # text = He led her into the hall, where she was highly honoured; but the witch’s daughter sucked the bones under the table, and crouching at the people’s feet she got an eye knocked out, poor thing! 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 12 advmod _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 11 highly highly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 honoured honour VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ’s 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 sucked suck VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 under under ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 27 crouching crouch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 csubj _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ’s 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 35 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 knocked knock VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 xcomp _ _ 38 out out ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lead** | past | Prince | girl | | the hall | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into hall=Destination | | 2 | **honour** | past · passive | | girl | | | | highly *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **suck** | past | the witch's daughter | the bones | | the table | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent bone=Source | | 4 | **crouch** | gerund | | | | the people's feet | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at foot=Location | | 5 | **get** | past | girl | a eye | | | | poor thing *obl* | tree rules | | 6 | **knock out** | participle | a eye *not said here* | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/14/93/) - next →: [sentence 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/14/95/) - ↑ back to [The Wonderful Birch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/14/)