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title: But the old woman was a witch, and she said to the girl, ‘There come… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the old woman was a witch, and she said to the girl, ‘There comes one out of the wood who has a wonderful treasure in his body which we must manage to possess ourselves of, darling daughter; we have more right to it than he. Who acts: old woman, woman, wood, wonderful treasure. A sentence of «Th
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 24

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But the old woman was a witch, and she said to the girl, ‘There comes one out of the wood who has a wonderful treasure in his body which we must manage to possess ourselves of, darling daughter; we have more right to it than he.

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**Who acts:** old woman, woman, wood, wonderful treasure, we · **What happens:** be, say, come, have, manage, possess · **To what, where:** witch, girl, one, wonderful treasure, body, ourselves · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, woman, wood, wonderful treasure), 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:pg640:10:24
# text = But the old woman was a witch, and she said to the girl, ‘There comes one out of the wood who has a wonderful treasure in his body which we must manage to possess ourselves of, darling daughter; we have more right to it than he.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
33	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl:relcl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	37	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	darling	darl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	advcl	_	_
42	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
44	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
46	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	47	amod	_	_
47	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	xcomp	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obl	_	_
50	than	than	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the old woman | a witch |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | woman |  | the girl |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to girl=Recipient |
| 3 | **come** | present | woman *not said here* | one out the wood |  | there |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | the wood | a wonderful treasure |  | Hunter's body |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Patient |
| 5 | **manage** | must | a wonderful treasure |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **possess** | to-infinitive | a wonderful treasure *not said here* | ourselves |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ourselves=Theme |
| 7 | **darl** | gerund | a wonderful treasure *not said here* | daughter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **have** | present | we |  |  |  |  | right *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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