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title: When her supper time came she stretched the board across two strings… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When her supper time came she stretched the board across two strings which hung from the roof, and set upon it the pot containing a stew that smelt very good. Who acts: supper time, woman, two strings, pot. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34, with its dependency t
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 110

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When her supper time came she stretched the board across two strings which hung from the roof, and set upon it the pot containing a stew that smelt very good.

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**Who acts:** supper time, woman, two strings, pot, stew · **What happens:** come, stretch, hang, set, contain, smelt · **To what, where:** board, two strings, roof, pot, stew

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (supper time, woman, two strings, pot), 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:pg3027:34:110
# text = When her supper time came she stretched the board across two strings which hung from the roof, and set upon it the pot containing a stew that smelt very good.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	across	across	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	stew	stew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	smelt	smelt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	very	very	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | woman's supper time |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stretch** | past | woman | the board |  | two strings |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent board=Patient |
| 3 | **hang** | past | two strings |  |  | the roof |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **set** | infinitive | woman *not said here* | the pot |  | roof |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme upon it=Destination |
| 5 | **contain** | gerund | the pot *not said here* | a stew |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot stew=Theme |
| 6 | **smelt** | present | a stew |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |

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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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