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title: Then she went away, and told the old King that the thing inside the… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she went away, and told the old King that the thing inside the iron stove would not have her, but wanted the Princess. Who acts: daughter, thing. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 25

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Then she went away, and told the old King that the thing inside the iron stove would not have her, but wanted the Princess.

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**Who acts:** daughter, thing · **What happens:** go away, tell, not have, want · **To what, where:** old King, daughter, Princess · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, thing), 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:pg640:8:25
# text = Then she went away, and told the old King that the thing inside the iron stove would not have her, but wanted the Princess.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	iobj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:outer	_	_
14	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	iron	iron	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go away** | past | daughter |  |  |  | then | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | daughter *not said here* |  | the old King |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **have** | would | the thing inside the iron stove | daughter |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 4 | **want** | past | daughter *not said here* | the Princess |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot princess=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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