--- title: ‘The old witch’s mare has run away from me,’ replied the prince, ‘an… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘The old witch’s mare has run away from me,’ replied the prince, ‘and I don’t know where to find her.’ Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/7/135/) [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 Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/7/) / 135 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 135 ‘The old witch’s mare has run away from me,’ replied the prince, ‘and I don’t know where to find her.’ **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** run away, reply, not know, find · **To what, where:** mare, prince · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg641:7:135 # text = ‘The old witch’s mare has run away from me,’ replied the prince, ‘and I don’t know where to find her.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ’s 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 mare mare NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 run run VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 away away ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 14 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 ‘ ‘ INTJ UH _ 14 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 22 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 24 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 26 advmod _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 ccomp _ _ 27 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run away** | present · perfect · passive | | the old witch's mare | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent | | 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | | the prince | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prince=Topic | | 3 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | I | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | | mare | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | 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 134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/7/134/) - next →: [sentence 136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/7/136/) - ↑ back to [The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/7/)