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title: Then the witch got up and laid about her among the plates and dishes… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the witch got up and laid about her among the plates and dishes, so that the pieces flew about their ears, just as she had done when she was cheated the first time. Who acts: witch, pieces, piece. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, with its depende
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 50

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Then the witch got up and laid about her among the plates and dishes, so that the pieces flew about their ears, just as she had done when she was cheated the first time.

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**Who acts:** witch, pieces, piece · **What happens:** get up, lay, fly, do, cheat · **To what, where:** piece

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, pieces, piece), 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:pg5615:26:50
# text = Then the witch got up and laid about her among the plates and dishes, so that the pieces flew about their ears, just as she had done when she was cheated the first time.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	among	among	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
21	about	about	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	just	just	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
30	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	cheated	cheat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	advcl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	36	amod	_	_
36	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get up** | past | the witch |  |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **lay** | past | the witch *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about witch; among the plates and dishes | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about she=Destination |
| 3 | **fly** | past | the pieces |  |  |  |  | about dishes's ears | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about ear=Location |
| 4 | **do** | past · perfect | piece |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **cheat** | past · passive |  | piece |  |  | time |  | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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