--- title: She had not to wait long, for as soon as the girl thought her mother… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: She had not to wait long, for as soon as the girl thought her mother was safely out of the way, she changed herself and the Prince once more into their human shape, and set out cheerfully for the river. Who acts: woman, girl, mother. 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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 (woman, girl, mother), 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:pg640:26:10 # text = She had not to wait long, for as soon as the girl thought her mother was safely out of the way, she changed herself and the Prince once more into their human shape, and set out cheerfully for the river. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 6 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 as as ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 11 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 18 safely safely ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 19 out out ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 25 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 30 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 31 advmod _ _ 31 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 25 advmod _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 39 out out ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 cheerfully cheerfully ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 41 for for ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | woman | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **wait** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* | | | | | long, soon *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the girl | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | past | woman's mother | | | the way | | safely *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **change** | past | woman | woman | | | | into fugitives's human shape *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent herself=Patient into shape=Result | | 6 | **set out** | infinitive | woman *not said here* | | | | | for the river; cheerfully *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/26/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/26/11/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/26/)