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title: Scarcely was the giant out of sight next morning when Ian Direach se… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Scarcely was the giant out of sight next morning when Ian Direach seized the falcon, and throwing a cloth over her head hastened with her to the door. Who acts: Scarcely, Ian, throwing. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 62

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Scarcely was the giant out of sight next morning when Ian Direach seized the falcon, and throwing a cloth over her head hastened with her to the door.

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**Who acts:** Scarcely, Ian, throwing · **What happens:** be, seize, throw, hasten · **To what, where:** falcon, cloth, head, door

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, Ian, throwing), 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:pg3027:7:62
# text = Scarcely was the giant out of sight next morning when Ian Direach seized the falcon, and throwing a cloth over her head hastened with her to the door.
1	Scarcely	Scarcely	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	Direach	Direach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	falcon	falcon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	csubj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Scarcely |  |  |  | morning | giant *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **seize** | past | Ian | the falcon |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent falcon=Theme |
| 3 | **throw** | gerund |  | a cloth |  | Scarcely's head |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme over head=Destination |
| 4 | **hasten** | participle | throwing |  |  | the door |  | with Scarcely | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to door=Destination |

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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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