--- title: So one day she went to an old Witch and said to her: ‘I should so mu… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So one day she went to an old Witch and said to her: ‘I should so much like to have a tiny, little child; can you tell me where I can get one?’ Who acts: woman, I, you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/69/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Witch in the Stone Boat(31)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/) / 69 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 69 So one day she went to an old Witch and said to her: ‘I should so much like to have a tiny, little child; can you tell me where I can get one?’ **Who acts:** woman, I, you · **What happens:** go, say, have, tell, get · **To what, where:** woman, tiny little child, me, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, I, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg640:47:69 # text = So one day she went to an old Witch and said to her: ‘I should so much like to have a tiny, little child; can you tell me where I can get one?’ 1 So so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 Witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 15 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 17 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 much much ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 like like SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 24 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 32 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 iobj _ _ 33 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 36 advmod _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 37 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ? ? PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | woman | | | | day | to a old Witch | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to witch=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | woman *not said here* | | woman | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | | 3 | **have** | should | I | a tiny little child | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | you | | me | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | | 5 | **get** | can | I | one | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/70/) - ↑ back to [The Witch in the Stone Boat(31)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/)