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title: Then he hastened back to the old women, and begging them to boil him… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he hastened back to the old women, and begging them to boil him some water, he threw the herb in. Who acts: man. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 30

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Then he hastened back to the old women, and begging them to boil him some water, he threw the herb in.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** hasten back, beg, boil, throw in · **To what, where:** fields, water, man, herb

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg3027:35:30
# text = Then he hastened back to the old women, and begging them to boil him some water, he threw the herb in.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
11	begging	beg	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	boil	boil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	herb	herb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hasten back** | past | man |  |  |  | then | to the old women *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to woman=Result |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | gerund | man *not said here* |  | fields *= field* |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 3 | **boil** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | some water | man |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary water=Patient |
| 4 | **throw in** | past | man | the herb |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herb=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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