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title: Your step-mother is not sending you to her granny, but to a wicked w… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Your step-mother is not sending you to her granny, but to a wicked witch who lives in that great gloomy wood. Who acts: step mother, wicked witch. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 15

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Your step-mother is not sending you to her granny, but to a wicked witch who lives in that great gloomy wood.

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**Who acts:** step mother, wicked witch · **What happens:** not send, live · **To what, where:** you, great gloomy wood

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (step mother, wicked witch), 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:pg640:39:15
# text = Your step-mother is not sending you to her granny, but to a wicked witch who lives in that great gloomy wood.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	granny	granny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **send** | present · progressive | Your step mother |  | you |  |  | to mother's granny; to a wicked witch | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to granny=Destination |
| 2 | **live** | present | a wicked witch |  |  | great gloomy wood |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location |

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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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