--- title: "Well," said the old woman, "you may stay here to-night; but to-morr… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "Well," said the old woman, "you may stay here to-night; but to-morrow morning you must go away, for if the king hears you have passed the night in my house, he will have me seized and put into prison." Who acts: old woman, you, king. 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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, you, king), 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:pg7128:7:127 # text = "Well," said the old woman, "you may stay here to-night; but to-morrow morning you must go away, for if the king hears you have passed the night in my house, he will have me seized and put into prison." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 14 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 27 away away ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 if if SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 hears hear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 33 ccomp _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl:unmarked _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 46 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ _ 47 seized seize VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 45 xcomp _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 47 conj _ _ 50 into into ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old woman | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **stay** *in a quote* | may | you | | | here | night | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **go away** *in a quote* | must | you | | | | morning | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **hear** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | the king | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **pass** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | | | my house | night | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in house=Location | | 6 | **have** *in a quote* | future | King | the old woman *= woman* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **seize** *in a quote* | participle | the old woman *= woman* *not said here* | | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **put** *in a quote* | participle | the old woman *= woman* *not said here* | | | prison | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | 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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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 126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/7/126/) - next →: [sentence 128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/7/128/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/7/)