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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 130

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When he became tired of searching for it he crept into the baking- oven, intending to lie down there and sleep till morning; but just at that moment he heard the witch calling from her bed to one of her daughters, and telling her to make some porridge for her.

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**Who acts:** king, witch · **What happens:** become, search, creep, intend, lie down, sleep · **To what, where:** baking oven, witch, one, bed, porridge · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, witch), 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:pg5615:28:130
# text = When he became tired of searching for it he crept into the baking- oven, intending to lie down there and sleep till morning; but just at that moment he heard the witch calling from her bed to one of her daughters, and telling her to make some porridge for her.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	searching	search	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	baking	baking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	intending	intend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	down	down	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
24	till	till	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
28	just	just	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	acl	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	conj	_	_
48	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	advcl	_	_
51	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	52	det	_	_
52	porridge	porridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
53	for	for	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | king |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **search** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for chimney | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for it=Theme |
| 3 | **creep** | past | king |  |  | the baking oven |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into oven=Destination |
| 4 | **intend** | gerund | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **lie down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | king *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **sleep** | present | king *not said here* |  |  |  | morning |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **hear** | past | king | the witch |  |  | moment |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer witch=Stimulus |
| 8 | **call** | gerund | the witch *not said here* |  | one of Witch's daughters | Witch's bed |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient |
| 9 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | king *not said here* |  | Witch |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 10 | **make** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | some porridge |  |  |  | for Witch | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent porridge=Material for she=Beneficiary |

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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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