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title: Fearing lest it should be a wolf, she hid herself in the hollow trun… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Fearing lest it should be a wolf, she hid herself in the hollow trunk of a willow tree which hung over the fountain. Who acts: Zizi, noise, willow tree. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 163

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Fearing lest it should be a wolf, she hid herself in the hollow trunk of a willow tree which hung over the fountain.

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**Who acts:** Zizi, noise, willow tree · **What happens:** fear, be, hide, hang · **To what, where:** Zizi, hollow trunk, fountain

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Zizi, noise, willow tree), 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:pg540:40:163
# text = Fearing lest it should be a wolf, she hid herself in the hollow trunk of a willow tree which hung over the fountain.
1	Fearing	fear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	advcl	_	_
2	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | gerund | Zizi *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | should | noise |  |  |  |  | lest a wolf | tree rules |
| 3 | **hide** | past | Zizi | Zizi |  | the hollow trunk of a willow tree |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient in trunk=Location |
| 4 | **hang** | past | a willow tree |  |  | the fountain |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over fountain=Location |

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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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