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title: For she had no idea that the kind-looking old woman leaning on her c… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For she had no idea that the kind-looking old woman leaning on her crutch was in reality a wicked witch, who envied the Queen her good fortune, and was determined to ruin her. Who acts: Queen, looking old woman, wicked witch. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck, with
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 11

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For she had no idea that the kind-looking old woman leaning on her crutch was in reality a wicked witch, who envied the Queen her good fortune, and was determined to ruin her.

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**Who acts:** Queen, looking old woman, wicked witch · **What happens:** have, look, lean, be, envy, ruin · **To what, where:** idea, crutch, reality, Queen

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, looking old woman, wicked witch), 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:pg640:29:11
# text = For she had no idea that the kind-looking old woman leaning on her crutch was in reality a wicked witch, who envied the Queen her good fortune, and was determined to ruin her.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
8	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
13	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	crutch	crutch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	envied	envy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	ruin	ruin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Queen | no idea |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient |
| 2 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **lean** | gerund | the looking old woman *not said here* |  |  | Queen's crutch |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on crutch=Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | the looking old woman |  |  | reality |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **envy** | past | a wicked witch | the Queen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | Queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | determined *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **ruin** | to-infinitive | Queen *not said here* | Queen |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

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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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