--- title: Then she told them how her stepmother had wished her put to death, a… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then she told them how her stepmother had wished her put to death, and how the Huntsman had spared her life, and how she had run the whole day till she had come to their little house. Who acts: SNOWDROP. 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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 (SNOWDROP), 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:pg540:47:169 # text = Then she told them how her stepmother had wished her put to death, and how the Huntsman had spared her life, and how she had run the whole day till she had come to their little house. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ _ 5 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 stepmother stepmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 wished wish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 ccomp _ _ 10 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Huntsman Huntsman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 spared spare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 run run VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 32 till till SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | SNOWDROP | | dwarfs *= dwarf* | | then | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **wish** | past · perfect · passive | | SNOWDROP's stepmother | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **put** *not said to happen* | infinitive | | | | | | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **spare** | past · perfect · passive | | the Huntsman | | | | | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Recipient life=Asset | | 5 | **run** | past · perfect | SNOWDROP | | | | day | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **come** | past · perfect | SNOWDROP | | | dwarfs's little house | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location | 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 168](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/47/168/) - next →: [sentence 170](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/47/170/) - ↑ back to [Bushy Bride](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/47/)