--- title: And so, obedient to her son’s behest, the old woman hobbled off to t… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And so, obedient to her son’s behest, the old woman hobbled off to the palace, and, without being hindered, reached the courtyard, and began to mount the flight of steps leading to the royal presence chamber. Who acts: obedient, steps. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/89/) [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 Magic Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/) / 89 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 89 And so, obedient to her son’s behest, the old woman hobbled off to the palace, and, without being hindered, reached the courtyard, and began to mount the flight of steps leading to the royal presence chamber. **Who acts:** obedient, steps · **What happens:** hobble off, hinder, reach, begin, mount, lead · **To what, where:** palace, courtyard, flight This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (obedient, steps), 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:pg640:33:89 # text = And so, obedient to her son’s behest, the old woman hobbled off to the palace, and, without being hindered, reached the courtyard, and began to mount the flight of steps leading to the royal presence chamber. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 2 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 obedient obedient NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ’s 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 behest behest NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 hobbled hobble VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 off off ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 without without SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 hindered hinder VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 courtyard courtyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 mount mount VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 flight flight NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ _ 38 leading lead VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 acl _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 41 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 42 presence presence NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 chamber chamber NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hobble off** | past | obedient to obedient's son's behest | | | the palace | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to palace=Destination | | 2 | **hinder** | gerund · passive | | | | | | | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V S\_ING» | | 3 | **reach** | past | obedient to obedient's son's behest *not said here* | the courtyard | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent courtyard=Theme | | 4 | **begin** | past | obedient to obedient's son's behest *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **mount** | to-infinitive | obedient to obedient's son's behest *not said here* | the flight of steps | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Patient | | 6 | **lead** | gerund | steps *not said here* | | | | | to the royal presence chamber | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to chamber=Patient | 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 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/88/) - next →: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/90/) - ↑ back to [The Magic Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/)