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title: Bellah took the net which the Groac’h held out, and, turning rapidly… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Bellah took the net which the Groac’h held out, and, turning rapidly, flung it over the witch’s head. Who acts: Bellah. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 97

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Bellah took the net which the Groac’h held out, and, turning rapidly, flung it over the witch’s head.

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**Who acts:** Bellah · **What happens:** take, hold out, turn, fling · **To what, where:** net, head

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bellah), 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:pg3454:34:97
# text = Bellah took the net which the Groac’h held out, and, turning rapidly, flung it over the witch’s head.
1	Bellah	Bellah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Groac’h	Groac'h	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
14	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Bellah | the net |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme |
| 2 | **hold out** | participle · passive |  | the net |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **turn** | gerund | Bellah *not said here* |  |  |  |  | rapidly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fling** | past | Bellah *not said here* | net |  | the witch's head |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme over head=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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