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title: And ladling out a large bowl of porridge, she stirred some poisonous… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And ladling out a large bowl of porridge, she stirred some poisonous herbs into it, and set about work that had to be done. Who acts: woman, work. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 57

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And ladling out a large bowl of porridge, she stirred some poisonous herbs into it, and set about work that had to be done.

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**Who acts:** woman, work · **What happens:** ladle out, stir, set, have, do · **To what, where:** large bowl, poisonous herbs

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, work), 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:pg3027:17:57
# text = And ladling out a large bowl of porridge, she stirred some poisonous herbs into it, and set about work that had to be done.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	ladling	ladle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	porridge	porridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stirred	stir	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
13	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
20	about	about	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ladle out** | gerund | woman *not said here* | a large bowl of porridge |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme |
| 2 | **stir** | past | woman | some poisonous herbs |  |  |  | into porridge | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent herb=Patient into it=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **set** | infinitive | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about work | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about work=Destination |
| 4 | **have** | past | work |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive · passive | work *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |

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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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