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title: And the wicked woman had them stewed in salt, and ate them up, think… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the wicked woman had them stewed in salt, and ate them up, thinking she had made an end of Snowdrop for ever. Who acts: woman. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 129

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And the wicked woman had them stewed in salt, and ate them up, thinking she had made an end of Snowdrop for ever.

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**Who acts:** woman · **What happens:** stew, eat up, think, make · **To what, where:** wicked woman, lungs, end · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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:pg540:47:129
# text = And the wicked woman had them stewed in salt, and ate them up, thinking she had made an end of Snowdrop for ever.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stewed	stew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	ccomp	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stew** | past · perfect · passive |  | the wicked woman |  |  |  | in salt | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient in salt=Instrument |
| 2 | **eat up** | past |  | lungs *= lung* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | past · perfect | woman | a end of Snowdrop |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent end=Product for ever=Asset |

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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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