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title: Iwanich longed to possess such an animal, and promised the mare to f… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Iwanich longed to possess such an animal, and promised the mare to follow her advice. Who acts: 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 of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 37

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Iwanich longed to possess such an animal, and promised the mare to follow her advice.

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**Who acts:** Iwanich · **What happens:** long, possess, promise, follow · **To what, where:** animal, mare, advice

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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 (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:pg640:32:37
# text = Iwanich longed to possess such an animal, and promised the mare to follow her advice.
1	Iwanich	Iwanich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	longed	long	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	7	det:predet	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mare	mare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **long** | past | Iwanich |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **possess** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Iwanich *not said here* | such animal |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot animal=Theme |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | Iwanich *not said here* |  | the mare |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent mare=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **follow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Iwanich *not said here* | Corva's advice |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme |

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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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