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title: Now, after the pot has been hanging some time over the fire, and the… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, after the pot has been hanging some time over the fire, and the broth is nearly cooked, just rake up the log of wood so that some of the ashes fly into the pot. Who acts: pot, some. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 3

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Now, after the pot has been hanging some time over the fire, and the broth is nearly cooked, just rake up the log of wood so that some of the ashes fly into the pot.

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**Who acts:** pot, some · **What happens:** hang, cook, rake up, fly · **To what, where:** fire, broth, log, pot

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pot, some), 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:pg3027:36:3
# text = Now, after the pot has been hanging some time over the fire, and the broth is nearly cooked, just rake up the log of wood so that some of the ashes fly into the pot.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux	_	_
8	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	broth	broth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	just	just	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	rake	rake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	35	mark	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	nsubj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
35	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | present · perfect · progressive | the pot |  |  | the fire | now; time |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over fire=Location |
| 2 | **cook** | present · passive |  | the broth |  |  |  | nearly *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **rake up** | infinitive |  | the log of wood |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent log=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **fly** | present | some |  |  |  |  | into the pot *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into pot=Result |

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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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