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title: This time the old woman told her to go the next full moon to the mil… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 26

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This time the old woman told her to go the next full moon to the mill-pond, and to spin there with a golden spinning-wheel, and then to leave the spinning-wheel on the bank.

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**Who acts:** old woman · **What happens:** tell, go, spin, leave · **To what, where:** wife, next full moon, spinning wheel, bank · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg640:21:26
# text = This time the old woman told her to go the next full moon to the mill-pond, and to spin there with a golden spinning-wheel, and then to leave the spinning-wheel on the bank.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	spin	spin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	spinning	spinning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	parataxis	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	spinning	spinning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the old woman |  | wife |  | time |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the old woman *not said here* | the next full moon |  |  |  | to the mill pond | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location moon=Theme |
| 3 | **spin** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | there |  | with a golden spinning wheel | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | to-infinitive |  | the spinning wheel |  | the bank | then |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme on bank=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 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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