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title: The old woman counselled her to go to the mill-pond the next full mo… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The old woman counselled her to go to the mill-pond the next full moon and play upon a golden flute, and then to lay the flute on the bank. Who acts: old woman. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 19

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The old woman counselled her to go to the mill-pond the next full moon and play upon a golden flute, and then to lay the flute on the bank.

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**Who acts:** old woman · **What happens:** counsell, go, play, lay · **To what, where:** wife, next full moon, mill pond, flute, bank

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3. 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), 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:pg640:21:19
# text = The old woman counselled her to go to the mill-pond the next full moon and play upon a golden flute, and then to lay the flute on the bank.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	counselled	counsell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **counsell** | past | the old woman | wife |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | the old woman *not said here* | the next full moon |  | the mill pond |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to pond=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **play** | infinitive | the old woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon a golden flute | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lay** | to-infinitive | the old woman *not said here* | the flute |  | the bank | then |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flute=Theme on bank=Destination |

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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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