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title: The witch gave a howl of disgust, and hid her face in her hands; thu… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The witch gave a howl of disgust, and hid her face in her hands; thus giving the younger sister time to fasten the cord to her waist before the ogress looked up. Who acts: witch, ogress, disgust. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 125

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The witch gave a howl of disgust, and hid her face in her hands; thus giving the younger sister time to fasten the cord to her waist before the ogress looked up.

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**Who acts:** witch, ogress, disgust · **What happens:** give, hide, fasten, look up, howl · **To what, where:** howl, face, hands, cord

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, ogress, disgust), 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:pg3027:26:125
# text = The witch gave a howl of disgust, and hid her face in her hands; thus giving the younger sister time to fasten the cord to her waist before the ogress looked up.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	howl	howl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	disgust	disgust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
21	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	fasten	fasten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	waist	waist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	ogress	ogress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
34	up	up	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the witch | a howl of disgust |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent howl=Theme |
| 2 | **hide** | past | the witch *not said here* | witch's face |  | witch's hands |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent face=Patient in hand=Location |
| 3 | **give** | gerund | the witch *not said here* |  |  |  | time | thus *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **fasten** | to-infinitive | the witch *not said here* | the cord |  |  |  | to witch's waist | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent cord=Patient to waist=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **look up** | past | the ogress |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **howl** |  | disgust |  |  |  |  |  | nom howl «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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