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title: Hermod said he knew of a Witch there, who was very ready to help any… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Hermod said he knew of a Witch there, who was very ready to help anyone, and that the only plan was to go to her. Who acts: Hermod, only plan. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 81

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Hermod said he knew of a Witch there, who was very ready to help anyone, and that the only plan was to go to her.

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**Who acts:** Hermod, only plan · **What happens:** say, know, be, help · **To what, where:** anyone, Hadvor · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hermod, only plan), 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:pg640:49:81
# text = Hermod said he knew of a Witch there, who was very ready to help anyone, and that the only plan was to go to her.
1	Hermod	Hermod	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Hermod |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **know** | past | Hermod |  |  | there |  | of a Witch | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of witch=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **help** | to-infinitive |  |  | anyone |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **is** | past | the only plan |  | Hadvor |  |  | go *property* | tree rules |

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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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