--- title: Then the old woman, who was a fairy, told him a great deal that woul… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then the old woman, who was a fairy, told him a great deal that would happen to him, and what he ought to do in all circumstances; and after that she vanished in an instant out of his sight. Who acts: old woman, great deal, water, woman. 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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, great deal, water, woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7439:1205`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7439:26:40 # text = Then the old woman, who was a fairy, told him a great deal that would happen to him, and what he ought to do in all circumstances; and after that she vanished in an instant out of his sight. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 acl:relcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 iobj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 17 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 27 obj _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 ought ought AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 30 det _ _ 30 circumstances circumstance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 after after ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 obl _ _ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 vanished vanish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 instant instant NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 out out ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 40 fixed _ _ 42 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the old woman | a fairy | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the old woman | a great deal | water | | then | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient deal=Topic | | 3 | **happen** | would | a great deal | | water | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **do** | ought | water | a great deal | | all circumstances | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 5 | **vanish** | past | woman | | | a instant | after that | out water's sight | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **sight** | | water | | | | | | nom sight «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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/26/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/26/41/) - ↑ back to [The Red Ettin](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/26/)