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title: And the wolves separated them while he gave a series of little sprin… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the wolves separated them while he gave a series of little springs, sometime pirouetting while he stood with one foot on the prow of both. ' Who acts: wolves, Wolf. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 78

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And the wolves separated them while he gave a series of little springs, sometime pirouetting while he stood with one foot on the prow of both. '

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**Who acts:** wolves, Wolf · **What happens:** separate, give, pirouette, stand · **To what, where:** Mink, series, prow

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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 (wolves, Wolf), 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:pg3027:34:78
# text = And the wolves separated them while he gave a series of little springs, sometime pirouetting while he stood with one foot on the prow of both. '
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	separated	separate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	series	series	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	springs	spring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	sometime	sometime	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	advmod	_	_
16	pirouetting	pirouette	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	prow	prow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **separate** | past | the wolves | Mink |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 2 | **give** | past | Wolf | a series of little springs |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent series=Theme |
| 3 | **pirouette** | gerund | the wolves *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sometime *property* | vn waltz-51.5 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stand** | past | Wolf |  |  | the prow of both |  | with one foot | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on prow=Location |

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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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