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title: ‘Over there, at the edge of the forest in the little hut you see in… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Over there, at the edge of the forest in the little hut you see in the distance,’ replied the old woman. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 11

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‘Over there, at the edge of the forest in the little hut you see in the distance,’ replied the old woman.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** see, reply · **To what, where:** little hut, old woman, edge

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg640:34:11
# text = ‘Over there, at the edge of the forest in the little hut you see in the distance,’ replied the old woman.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Over	over	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
22	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | you | the little hut *not said here* |  |  |  | in the distance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hut=Stimulus |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  | the old woman |  | the edge of the forest in the little hut; there |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent woman=Topic |

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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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