--- title: In the meantime I will slip in among the hens through a hole in the… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: In the meantime I will slip in among the hens through a hole in the wall and give them a good chase, so that the noise they make will arouse the royal henwives, and they will come to see what is the matter. Who acts: I, hens, noise. 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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 (I, hens, noise), 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:pg640:32:28 # text = In the meantime I will slip in among the hens through a hole in the wall and give them a good chase, so that the noise they make will arouse the royal henwives, and they will come to see what is the matter. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 meantime meantime NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 slip slip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 among among ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 hens hen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 through through ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 iobj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 chase chase NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 24 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 31 mark _ _ 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 fixed _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 arouse arouse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 henwives henwive NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 advcl _ _ 42 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 45 nsubj _ _ 43 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **slip in** | future | I | | | | | among the hens; through a hole in the wall; in the meantime | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in meantime=Attribute | | 2 | **give** | infinitive | I *not said here* | a good chase | hens *= hen* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient chase=Theme | | 3 | **make** | present | hens *= hen* | the noise *not said here* | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product | | 4 | **arouse** | future | the noise | the royal henwives | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus henwive=Experiencer | | 5 | **come** | future | hens *= hen* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **see** | to-infinitive | hens *= hen* *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **is a** | present | | the matter | | | | | tree rules | 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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/32/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/32/29/) - ↑ back to [The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/32/)