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title: Having done this, the witches disappeared, and the youth with his lo… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Having done this, the witches disappeared, and the youth with his lovely bride drove to his mother’s home. Who acts: witches, youth. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 66

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Having done this, the witches disappeared, and the youth with his lovely bride drove to his mother’s home.

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**Who acts:** witches, youth · **What happens:** have, do, disappear, drive · **To what, where:** this, home

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witches, youth), 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:pg641:36:66
# text = Having done this, the witches disappeared, and the youth with his lovely bride drove to his mother’s home.
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
2	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	xcomp	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | the witches *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | participle | the witches *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 3 | **disappear** | past | the witches |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **drive** | past | the youth with youth's lovely bride |  |  | youth's mother's home |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to home=Trajectory |

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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 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.

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