--- title: Then she bade them hide themselves next morning, as soon as Iwanich… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then she bade them hide themselves next morning, as soon as Iwanich was asleep, in the King’s hen-house, which stood on a lonely part of the heath, and to remain there till she called. Who acts: witch, hen house. 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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, hen house), 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:pg640:32:15 # text = Then she bade them hide themselves next morning, as soon as Iwanich was asleep, in the King’s hen-house, which stood on a lonely part of the heath, and to remain there till she called. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 bade bade VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 5 obj _ _ 7 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 as as ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 12 as as ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Iwanich Iwanich PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ’s 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 heath heath NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 remain remain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 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 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bade** | past | witch | horses *= horse* | | | then | | tree rules | | 2 | **hide** | infinitive | witch *not said here* | horses *= horse* | | | morning | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | | 3 | **is** | past | | | | the King's hen house | | as Iwanich; asleep, soon *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **stand** | past | the King's hen house | | | a lonely part of the heath | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on part=Location | | 5 | **remain** | to-infinitive | witch *not said here* | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **call** | past | witch | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/32/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/32/16/) - ↑ back to [The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/32/)