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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 61

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When the witch saw that the children had escaped her, she was furious, and, hitting the cat with a porringer, she said: ‘Why did you let the children leave the hut?

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**Who acts:** witch, you, children · **What happens:** see, escape, be, hit, say, let · **To what, where:** children, cat, hut · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (witch, you, children), 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:pg640:39:61
# text = When the witch saw that the children had escaped her, she was furious, and, hitting the cat with a porringer, she said: ‘Why did you let the children leave the hut?
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	escaped	escape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	hitting	hit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	porringer	porringer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
28	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
30	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
35	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	parataxis	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the witch |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **escape** | past · perfect · passive |  | the children |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | witch |  |  |  |  | furious *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hit** | gerund | witch *not said here* | the cat |  |  |  | with a porringer | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cat=Patient with porringer=Instrument |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | witch |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **let** | past · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **leave** | present | the children | the hut |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hut=Theme |

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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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