--- title: When the witch saw the Prince bringing the horses home she could har… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When the witch saw the Prince bringing the horses home she could hardly conceal her wrath, and as soon as she had placed Iwanich’s supper before him she stole away again to the stables. Who acts: witch, Prince. 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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 (witch, Prince), 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:pg640:32:1 # text = When the witch saw the Prince bringing the horses home she could hardly conceal her wrath, and as soon as she had placed Iwanich’s supper before him she stole away again to the stables. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 bringing bring VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 xcomp _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 compound _ _ 10 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 conceal conceal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl:relcl _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 wrath wrath NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 19 as as ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 24 advmod _ _ 21 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 placed place VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 25 Iwanich Iwanich PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ’s 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 supper supper NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 before before ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 stole steal VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 32 away away ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 again again ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 stables stable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | the witch | the Prince | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **bring** | gerund | the Prince *not said here* | the horses home | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent home=Theme | | 3 | **conceal** | could | witch | witch's wrath | | | | hardly *property* | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrath=Patient | | 4 | **place** | past · perfect | witch | Iwanich's supper | | | before Iwanich | soon *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent supper=Theme before he=Destination | | 5 | **steal away** | past | witch | | | | again | to the stables; away *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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: [The Witch and Her Servants(2…, 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/31/92/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/32/2/) - ↑ back to [The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/32/)