--- title: The old woman, who guessed his thoughts, laughed kindly and said, ‘I… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The old woman, who guessed his thoughts, laughed kindly and said, ‘I’ll tell you what you must do, for I’ve taken a fancy to you, and I’m sure you won’t forget me when you’ve made your fortune.’ Who acts: old woman, I, you, Peter. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/23/12/) [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 Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Magic Swan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/23/) / 12 # The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 12 The old woman, who guessed his thoughts, laughed kindly and said, ‘I’ll tell you what you must do, for I’ve taken a fancy to you, and I’m sure you won’t forget me when you’ve made your fortune.’ **Who acts:** old woman, I, you, Peter · **What happens:** guess, laugh, say, tell, do, take · **To what, where:** thoughts, you, fancy, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. 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, I, you, Peter), 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:pg7277:23:12 # text = The old woman, who guessed his thoughts, laughed kindly and said, ‘I’ll tell you what you must do, for I’ve taken a fancy to you, and I’m sure you won’t forget me when you’ve made your fortune.’ 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 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 guessed guess VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ’ll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 iobj _ _ 20 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 23 obj _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 for for SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ’ve have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 conj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 fancy fancy NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ’m be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 37 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 xcomp _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 39 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 40 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 forget forget VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 ccomp _ _ 42 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 when when SCONJ WRB _ 46 mark _ _ 44 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ’ve have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux:pass _ _ 46 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 advcl _ _ 47 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **guess** | past | the old woman | Peter's thoughts | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Theme | | 2 | **laugh** | past | the old woman | | | | | kindly *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old woman *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | future | I | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **do** | must | you | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 6 | **take** | present · perfect | I | a fancy | you | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme to you=Destination | | 7 | **be** | present | I | | | | | sure *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **not** **forget** | future | you | me | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **make** | present · passive | | you | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary fortune=Product | | 10 | **think** | | Peter | | | | | | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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:** «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/23/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/23/13/) - ↑ back to [The Magic Swan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/23/)