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title: Without wasting any time she took a fox skin and tied it round her f… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Without wasting any time she took a fox skin and tied it round her forehead, and fastened another round her waist, as witches always do when they leave their own homes. Who acts: wife, witches. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tre
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 40

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Without wasting any time she took a fox skin and tied it round her forehead, and fastened another round her waist, as witches always do when they leave their own homes.

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**Who acts:** wife, witches · **What happens:** waste, take, tie, fasten, do, leave · **To what, where:** fox skin, skin, another, own homes

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, witches), 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:pg3282:8:40
# text = Without wasting any time she took a fox skin and tied it round her forehead, and fastened another round her waist, as witches always do when they leave their own homes.
1	Without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	wasting	waste	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
3	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	tied	tie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	round	round	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	obj	_	_
20	round	round	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	waist	waist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	27	advmod	_	_
27	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
28	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	30	mark	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **waste** | gerund | wife *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past | wife | a fox skin |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme |
| 3 | **tie** | past | wife *not said here* | skin |  |  |  | round wife's forehead | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **fasten** | past | wife *not said here* | another |  |  |  | round wife's waist | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Patient |
| 5 | **do** | present | witches |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **leave** | present | witches *= witch* | witches's own homes |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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