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title: 'These men are under spells,' said the witch, 'and alive they can ne… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'These men are under spells,' said the witch, 'and alive they can never be till you have anointed them with the water which you must fetch from the island of Big Women. Who acts: men, spells, water. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 95

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'These men are under spells,' said the witch, 'and alive they can never be till you have anointed them with the water which you must fetch from the island of Big Women.

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**Who acts:** men, spells, water · **What happens:** be, say, not anoint, fetch · **To what, where:** spells, witch, alive, island · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, spells, water), 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:pg3027:5:95
# text = 'These men are under spells,' said the witch, 'and alive they can never be till you have anointed them with the water which you must fetch from the island of Big Women.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	spells	spell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
15	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
20	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	anointed	anoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	Women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | this men |  |  | spells |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | spells | the witch |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent witch=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **anoint** | can · perfect · passive |  | alive |  |  |  | with the water | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme they=Result |
| 4 | **fetch** | must | the water |  |  | the island of Big Women |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from island=Source |

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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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