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title: But their stern words and forbidding gestures made no impression wha… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But their stern words and forbidding gestures made no impression whatever on the old woman, and she resolutely continued to climb the stairs, bent on carrying out her son’s orders. Who acts: stern words, woman, steps, son. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring, with it
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 91

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But their stern words and forbidding gestures made no impression whatever on the old woman, and she resolutely continued to climb the stairs, bent on carrying out her son’s orders.

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**Who acts:** stern words, woman, steps, son · **What happens:** forbid, make, continue, climb, bend, carry out · **To what, where:** impression, stairs, orders

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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 (stern words, woman, steps, son), 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:pg640:33:91
# text = But their stern words and forbidding gestures made no impression whatever on the old woman, and she resolutely continued to climb the stairs, bent on carrying out her son’s orders.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	stern	stern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	forbidding	forbid	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	gestures	gesture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	impression	impression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	appos	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	resolutely	resolutely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
27	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’s	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forbid** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 2 | **make** | past | steps's stern words and forbidding gestures | no impression |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset impression=Product |
| 3 | **continue** | past | woman |  |  |  |  | resolutely *property* | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **climb** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* | the stairs |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location stair=Theme |
| 5 | **bend** | participle | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **carry out** | gerund | woman *not said here* | woman's son's orders |  |  |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Eventuality |
| 7 | **word** |  | steps *= step* |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **order** |  | woman's son |  |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=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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