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title: Then she called to her husband: ‘Old man, yoke the horses at once in… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she called to her husband: ‘Old man, yoke the horses at once into the sledge, and take my daughter to the same field and leave her on the same spot exactly; ‘and so the old man took the girl and left her beneath the same tree where he had parted from his daughter. Who acts: door, Old man, man. 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 41

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Then she called to her husband: ‘Old man, yoke the horses at once into the sledge, and take my daughter to the same field and leave her on the same spot exactly; ‘and so the old man took the girl and left her beneath the same tree where he had parted from his daughter.

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**Who acts:** door, Old man, man · **What happens:** call, yoke, take, leave, part · **To what, where:** Old man, husband, horses, daughter, same field, door · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of King Frost (26). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, Old man, man), 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:pg640:37:41
# text = Then she called to her husband: ‘Old man, yoke the horses at once into the sledge, and take my daughter to the same field and leave her on the same spot exactly; ‘and so the old man took the girl and left her beneath the same tree where he had parted from his daughter.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	yoke	yoke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	obl	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sledge	sledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
31	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
36	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
38	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
40	so	so	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	conj	_	_
49	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	_
50	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
54	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	57	advmod	_	_
55	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
56	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
57	parted	part	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	53	acl:relcl	_	_
58	from	from	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
60	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | door | Old man | door's husband |  | then |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient |
| 2 | **yoke** | infinitive | Old man *not said here* |  | the horses |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Destination |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive |  | my daughter |  | the same field |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to field=Destination |
| 4 | **leave** | infinitive |  | door |  | the same spot |  | exactly *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme on spot=Location |
| 5 | **take** | past | the old man |  | the girl |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument girl=Destination |
| 6 | **leave** | past | the old man *not said here* | door |  | the same tree |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme beneath tree=Location |
| 7 | **part** | past · perfect | man |  |  |  |  | from man's daughter | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from daughter=Co-Patient |

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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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