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title: She bade them wait next morning till Iwanich was asleep and then to… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She bade them wait next morning till Iwanich was asleep and then to hide themselves in the clouds, and to remain there till she called. Who acts: witch, Iwanich. 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 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 3

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She bade them wait next morning till Iwanich was asleep and then to hide themselves in the clouds, and to remain there till she called.

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**Who acts:** witch, Iwanich · **What happens:** bade, wait, be, hide, remain, call · **To what, where:** beasts, clouds · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (witch, Iwanich), 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:pg640:32:3
# text = She bade them wait next morning till Iwanich was asleep and then to hide themselves in the clouds, and to remain there till she called.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	Iwanich	Iwanich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	remain	remain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
24	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bade** | past | witch | beasts *= beast* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wait** | infinitive | witch *not said here* |  |  |  | morning |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | Iwanich |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hide** | to-infinitive | witch *not said here* | beasts *= beast* |  | the clouds | then |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient in cloud=Location |
| 5 | **remain** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **call** | past | witch |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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