--- title: He crouched down in the doorway and heard the wicked witch telling t… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He crouched down in the doorway and heard the wicked witch telling the horses to wait next morning till Iwanich was asleep, and then to go and hide themselves in the river, and to stay there till she told them to return; and if they didn’t do as she told them the old woman threatened to beat them ti --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/31/79/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/31/) / 79 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 79 He crouched down in the doorway and heard the wicked witch telling the horses to wait next morning till Iwanich was asleep, and then to go and hide themselves in the river, and to stay there till she told them to return; and if they didn’t do as she told them the old woman threatened to beat them till they bled. **Who acts:** Prince, wicked witch, Iwanich, witch, horses · **What happens:** crouch down, hear, tell, wait, be, go · **To what, where:** doorway, wicked witch, horses, river, old woman · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, wicked witch, Iwanich, witch), 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:pg640:31:79 # text = He crouched down in the doorway and heard the wicked witch telling the horses to wait next morning till Iwanich was asleep, and then to go and hide themselves in the river, and to stay there till she told them to return; and if they didn’t do as she told them the old woman threatened to beat them till they bled. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 crouched crouch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 down down ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 doorway doorway NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 xcomp _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 17 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 till till SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 Iwanich Iwanich PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 advcl _ 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 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 hide hide VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 30 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 29 obj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 stay stay VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 38 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 37 advmod _ _ 39 till till SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ _ 42 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 iobj _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 return return VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ; ; PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 47 if if SCONJ IN _ 51 mark _ _ 48 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 49 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 51 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 50 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 51 advmod _ _ 51 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 52 as as SCONJ IN _ 54 mark _ _ 53 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 54 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 51 advcl _ _ 55 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 iobj _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 57 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 amod _ _ 58 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obj _ _ 59 threatened threaten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 58 acl _ _ 60 to to PART TO _ 61 mark _ _ 61 beat beat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 59 xcomp _ _ 62 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 61 obj _ _ 63 till till SCONJ IN _ 65 mark _ _ 64 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 65 nsubj _ _ 65 bled bleed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 61 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 66 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **crouch down** | past | Prince | | | the doorway | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in doorway=Location | | 2 | **hear** | past | Prince *not said here* | the wicked witch | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | the wicked witch *not said here* | | the horses | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **wait** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the wicked witch *not said here* | | | | morning | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | past | Iwanich | | | | | asleep *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | to-infinitive | | | | | then | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **hide** | infinitive | | horses *= horse* | | the river | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient in river=Location | | 8 | **stay** | to-infinitive | | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | witch | | horses *= horse* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 10 | **return** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | witch *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 11 | **not** **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · do-support | horses *= horse* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 12 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | witch | the old woman | horses *= horse* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient woman=Topic | | 13 | **threaten** | participle | | the old woman *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 14 | **beat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | horses *= horse* | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | | 15 | **bleed** | past | horses *= horse* | | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | 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 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/31/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/31/80/) - ↑ back to [The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/31/)