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title: While he was doing this, Isuro collected sticks for a fire, and when… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: While he was doing this, Isuro collected sticks for a fire, and when it was kindled, Gudu hastened to another hut to steal a pot which he filled with water from the river, and, planting two branches in the ground, they hung the pot with the meat in it over the fire. Who acts: two, Isuro, pot, branch
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 20

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While he was doing this, Isuro collected sticks for a fire, and when it was kindled, Gudu hastened to another hut to steal a pot which he filled with water from the river, and, planting two branches in the ground, they hung the pot with the meat in it over the fire.

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**Who acts:** two, Isuro, pot, branches · **What happens:** do, collect, kindle, hasten, steal, fill · **To what, where:** this, sticks, rabbit, hut, pot, river

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, Isuro, pot, branches), 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:pg3027:4:20
# text = While he was doing this, Isuro collected sticks for a fire, and when it was kindled, Gudu hastened to another hut to steal a pot which he filled with water from the river, and, planting two branches in the ground, they hung the pot with the meat in it over the fire.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	Isuro	Isuro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	collected	collect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	kindled	kindle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	planting	plant	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
41	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
42	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
51	with	with	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obl	_	_
56	over	over	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · progressive | two | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 2 | **collect** | past | Isuro | sticks |  |  |  | for a fire | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme |
| 3 | **kindle** | past · passive |  | rabbit |  |  |  | Gudu *obl* | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **hasten** | participle |  |  |  | another hut |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to hut=Destination |
| 5 | **steal** | to-infinitive |  | a pot |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pot=Theme |
| 6 | **fill** | past | a pot |  |  | the river |  | with water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument |
| 7 | **plant** | gerund | Isuro *not said here* | two branches |  | the ground |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent branch=Theme in ground=Destination |
| 8 | **hang** | past | branches *= branch* | the pot |  | the fire |  | with the meat; in rabbit | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pot=Patient with meat=Instrument |

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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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