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title: ‘No, neither will I,’ said the daughter; but while she was away gett… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘No, neither will I,’ said the daughter; but while she was away getting the meal Esben slipped out of the oven and emptied the whole bushel of salt into the pot. Who acts: I, Witch, getting. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tree an
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 134

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‘No, neither will I,’ said the daughter; but while she was away getting the meal Esben slipped out of the oven and emptied the whole bushel of salt into the pot.

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**Who acts:** I, Witch, getting · **What happens:** say, get, slip out, empty · **To what, where:** meal, oven, whole bushel, pot · **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 (I, Witch, getting), 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:pg5615:28:134
# text = ‘No, neither will I,’ said the daughter; but while she was away getting the meal Esben slipped out of the oven and emptied the whole bushel of salt into the pot.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	6	cc:preconj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	csubj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	Esben	Esben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	_
22	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	emptied	empty	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	bushel	bushel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | past · progressive | Witch | the meal |  |  |  | away *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meal=Stimulus |
| 3 | **slip out** | past | getting | the oven |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent oven=Patient |
| 4 | **empty** | past | getting *not said here* | the whole bushel of salt |  | the pot |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination»: agent=Agent bushel=Theme into pot=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 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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