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title: The Prince followed her, and heard her scolding the beasts harshly f… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince followed her, and heard her scolding the beasts harshly for not having hidden themselves better. Who acts: Prince, witch. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 2

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The Prince followed her, and heard her scolding the beasts harshly for not having hidden themselves better.

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**Who acts:** Prince, witch · **What happens:** follow, hear, scold, not have, hide · **To what, where:** witch, beasts

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, 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:pg640:32:2
# text = The Prince followed her, and heard her scolding the beasts harshly for not having hidden themselves better.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	scolding	scold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	harshly	harshly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
16	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	xcomp	_	_
17	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | the Prince | witch |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past | the Prince *not said here* | witch |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **scold** | gerund | witch *not said here* | the beasts |  |  |  | harshly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **have** | gerund | witch *not said here* |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **hide** | participle | witch *not said here* | beasts *= beast* |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=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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