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title: Then they told their father all that they had suffered, and he was s… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they told their father all that they had suffered, and he was so angry with their step-mother that he drove her out of the house, and never let her return; but he and the children lived happily together; and he took care of them himself, and never let a stranger come near them. Who acts: twins,
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 74

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Then they told their father all that they had suffered, and he was so angry with their step-mother that he drove her out of the house, and never let her return; but he and the children lived happily together; and he took care of them himself, and never let a stranger come near them.

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**Who acts:** twins, dog, mother, stranger · **What happens:** tell, suffer, be, drive, not let, return · **To what, where:** father, mother, house, care, stranger · **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 (twins, dog, mother, stranger), 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:pg640:39:74
# text = Then they told their father all that they had suffered, and he was so angry with their step-mother that he drove her out of the house, and never let her return; but he and the children lived happily together; and he took care of them himself, and never let a stranger come near them.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
19	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
34	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
42	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
43	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
44	together	together	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
49	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obl	_	_
52	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
55	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	56	advmod	_	_
56	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	_
59	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	xcomp	_	_
60	near	near	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | twins *= twin* |  | twins's father |  | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **suffer** | past · perfect | twins *= twin* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | dog |  |  |  |  | with twins's step mother; angry *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **drive** | past | dog | mother |  | the house |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme out house=Trajectory |
| 5 | **not** **let** | infinitive |  | mother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **return** | infinitive | mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **live** | past | dog |  |  |  |  | happily, together *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **take** | past | dog | care |  |  |  | of twins *= twin*; dog *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of they=Initial\_Location |
| 9 | **not** **let** | infinitive |  | a stranger |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **come** | infinitive | a stranger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | near twins *= twin* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near they=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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