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title: And so they did; and the elder sister let down her hair till it hung… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And so they did; and the elder sister let down her hair till it hung over the witch's eyes, so that she might believe it was her own hair growing. Who acts: they, elder sister, hair, sister. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 1

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And so they did; and the elder sister let down her hair till it hung over the witch's eyes, so that she might believe it was her own hair growing.

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**Who acts:** they, elder sister, hair, sister, own hair · **What happens:** do, let down, hang, believe, be, grow · **To what, where:** hair, eyes, own hair · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they, elder sister, hair, sister), 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:pg3027:27:1
# text = And so they did; and the elder sister let down her hair till it hung over the witch's eyes, so that she might believe it was her own hair growing.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	ccomp	_	_
33	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **do** | past | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **let down** | past | the elder sister | sister's hair |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hang** | past | hair |  |  | the witch's eyes |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over eye=Location |
| 4 | **believe** | might | sister |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is a** | past | hair | sister's own hair |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **grow** | gerund | sister's own hair *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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