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title: Once outside, he ran without stopping to the witch's tower, and hand… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Once outside, he ran without stopping to the witch's tower, and handed to the old woman the jar she had given him. Who acts: boy, woman. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 94

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Once outside, he ran without stopping to the witch's tower, and handed to the old woman the jar she had given him.

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**Who acts:** boy, woman · **What happens:** run, stop, hand, give · **To what, where:** jar, boy

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, woman), 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:pg3027:33:94
# text = Once outside, he ran without stopping to the witch's tower, and handed to the old woman the jar she had given him.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	advmod	_	_
2	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:agent	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	acl	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | boy |  |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | gerund | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the witch's tower | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **hand** | participle | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** | past · perfect | woman | the jar *not said here* | boy |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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