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title: She hesitated long, and went first to one and then to another, when… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She hesitated long, and went first to one and then to another, when she heard the cats' voices calling: 'Take the black! take the black!' Who acts: girl. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 5

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She hesitated long, and went first to one and then to another, when she heard the cats' voices calling: 'Take the black! take the black!'

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** hesitate, go, hear, call, take · **To what, where:** one, voices, black · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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:pg3027:11:5
# text = She hesitated long, and went first to one and then to another, when she heard the cats' voices calling: 'Take the black! take the black!'
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hesitated	hesitate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
22	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
29	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hesitate** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | past | girl *not said here* |  | one |  |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to one=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **hear** | past | girl | the cats's voices |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus |
| 4 | **call** *speech: assert* | gerund | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **take** | infinitive |  | the black |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent black=Theme |
| 6 | **take** | infinitive |  | the black |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent black=Theme |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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