--- title: The witch pretended to be much astonished at his request, and said t… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The witch pretended to be much astonished at his request, and said that he deserved something much better than the foal, for the beast was lazy and nervous, blind in one eye, and, in short, was quite worthless. Who acts: witch, Iwanich, beast. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/32/41/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/32/) / 41 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 41 The witch pretended to be much astonished at his request, and said that he deserved something much better than the foal, for the beast was lazy and nervous, blind in one eye, and, in short, was quite worthless. **Who acts:** witch, Iwanich, beast · **What happens:** pretend, astonish, say, deserve, be, request · **To what, where:** request, something, one eye, short · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, beast), 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:pg640:32:41 # text = The witch pretended to be much astonished at his request, and said that he deserved something much better than the foal, for the beast was lazy and nervous, blind in one eye, and, in short, was quite worthless. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 pretended pretend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 aux:pass _ _ 6 much much ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 astonished astonish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 ccomp _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 request request NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 deserved deserve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 17 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 16 obj _ _ 18 much much ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 16 advmod _ _ 20 than than ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 foal foal NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 for for SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 lazy lazy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 ccomp _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 nervous nervous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 43 quite quite ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 worthless worthless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pretend** | past | the witch | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **astonish** | to-infinitive · passive | the witch *not said here* | | | Iwanich's request | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the witch *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **deserve** | past | Iwanich | something | | | | well *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | past | the beast | | | | | lazy *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | the beast *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | | the beast *not said here* | | | one eye | | | tree rules | | 8 | **is** | past | the witch *not said here* | | | short | | worthless *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **request** | | Iwanich | | | | | | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=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 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/32/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/32/42/) - ↑ back to [The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/32/)