--- title: The old woman went upstairs, and she found the mistress and master s… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The old woman went upstairs, and she found the mistress and master sitting on a couch of marble spread with soft cushions, and they asked her, ‘Well, old woman, what do you want?’ Who acts: old woman, woman, mistress, you. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/206/) [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 Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Story of a Gazelle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/) / 206 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 206 The old woman went upstairs, and she found the mistress and master sitting on a couch of marble spread with soft cushions, and they asked her, ‘Well, old woman, what do you want?’ **Who acts:** old woman, woman, mistress, you · **What happens:** go, find, sit, spread, ask, want · **To what, where:** couch, old woman, woman · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, woman, mistress, 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:pg641:15:206 # text = The old woman went upstairs, and she found the mistress and master sitting on a couch of marble spread with soft cushions, and they asked her, ‘Well, old woman, what do you want?’ 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 upstairs upstairs ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 mistress mistress NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 couch couch NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 marble marble NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 spread spread VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 cushions cushion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 28 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 Well well INTJ UH _ 34 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 33 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 39 obj _ _ 37 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ? ? PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | the old woman | | | | | upstairs *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **find** | past | woman | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **sit** | gerund | the mistress and master *not said here* | | | a couch of marble | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on couch=Location | | 4 | **spread** | present | the mistress and master | | | | | with soft cushions | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | mistress | old woman | woman | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 6 | **want** | present · do-support | you | old woman | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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 205](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/205/) - next →: [sentence 207](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/207/) - ↑ back to [The Story of a Gazelle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/)