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title: And besides being an ogress she was also a witch, and by her black a… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And besides being an ogress she was also a witch, and by her black arts had sunk the ship in which the father of Sigurd and Lineik had set sail. Who acts: ogress, father. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 10

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And besides being an ogress she was also a witch, and by her black arts had sunk the ship in which the father of Sigurd and Lineik had set sail.

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**Who acts:** ogress, father · **What happens:** beside, be, sink, set · **To what, where:** ogress, witch, ship, sail

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ogress, father), 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:pg2435:24:10
# text = And besides being an ogress she was also a witch, and by her black arts had sunk the ship in which the father of Sigurd and Lineik had set sail.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	besides	beside	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ogress	ogress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	also	also	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	arts	art	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	sunk	sink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	Lineik	Lineik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	acl:relcl	_	_
31	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beside** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | gerund |  | a ogress |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | ogress | a witch |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sink** | past · perfect |  | the ship |  |  |  | by ogress's black arts | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ship=Patient |
| 5 | **set** | past · perfect | the father of Sigurd and Lineik | sail |  | the ship |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sail=Theme in which=Destination |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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