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title: The old witch came out of her house and called to him, for she would… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The old witch came out of her house and called to him, for she would gladly have cast her spells on him too, but he took care not to go near her, and called out: ‘Restore my brother to life at once, or I’ll shoot you down on the spot.’ Who acts: old witch, witch, son, I. A sentence of «The Green Fai
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 85

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The old witch came out of her house and called to him, for she would gladly have cast her spells on him too, but he took care not to go near her, and called out: ‘Restore my brother to life at once, or I’ll shoot you down on the spot.’

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**Who acts:** old witch, witch, son, I · **What happens:** come out, call, cast, take, care, not go · **To what, where:** house, son, spells, brother, life, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old witch, witch, son, I), 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:pg7277:49:85
# text = The old witch came out of her house and called to him, for she would gladly have cast her spells on him too, but he took care not to go near her, and called out: ‘Restore my brother to life at once, or I’ll shoot you down on the spot.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
19	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	spells	spell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
24	too	too	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
29	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	_
33	near	near	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
38	out	out	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
40	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	Restore	restore	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
42	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
46	at	at	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
50	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	conj	_	_
53	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	down	down	ADP	RP	_	52	compound:prt	_	_
55	on	on	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | past | the old witch | witch's house |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient house=Result |
| 2 | **call** | participle | the old witch *not said here* |  | son |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 3 | **cast** | would · perfect | witch | witch's spells |  |  |  | on son; gladly *property* | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spell=Theme on he=Destination |
| 4 | **take** | past | son |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 5 | **care** | infinitive | son *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **not** **go** | to-infinitive | son *not said here* |  |  |  |  | near witch | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near she=Location |
| 7 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle | the old witch *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **restore** | infinitive |  | my brother | life |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent brother=Theme to life=Recipient |
| 9 | **shoot down** | future | I | you |  | the spot |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent you=Theme on spot=Destination |
| 10 | **spell** |  | witch |  |  |  |  |  | nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 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.

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