--- title: Scarcely had he done this when the witch called her daughter and bad… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Scarcely had he done this when the witch called her daughter and bade her lift the pot off the fire and put the stew into a dish, as it had been cooking quite long enough and she was hungry. Who acts: Scarcely, witch, pot. 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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 (Scarcely, witch, pot), 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:pg3027:16:74 # text = Scarcely had he done this when the witch called her daughter and bade her lift the pot off the fire and put the stew into a dish, as it had been cooking quite long enough and she was hungry. 1 Scarcely Scarcely PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 obj _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 bade bade NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 lift lift NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 18 off off ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 stew stew NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 dish dish NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 as as SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 33 aux _ _ 33 cooking cook VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 34 quite quite ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 33 advmod _ _ 36 enough enough ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 40 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past · perfect | Scarcely | this | | | | off the fire | tree rules | | 2 | **call** | past | the witch | | witch's daughter and bade | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient | | 3 | **put** | infinitive | Scarcely *not said here* | the stew | | a dish | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent stew=Goal | | 4 | **cook** | past · perfect · progressive | pot | | | | | enough, long *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **is** | past | witch | | | | | hungry *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **lift** | | witch | | | | | | nom lift «act intransitive»: 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/16/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/16/75/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/16/)