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description: This the daughter did, and the witch cried, ‘Ah! now he is fat--so fat that one can scarcely feel the bone in him. Who acts: daughter, witch, property, one. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 64

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This the daughter did, and the witch cried, ‘Ah! now he is fat--so fat that one can scarcely feel the bone in him.

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**Who acts:** daughter, witch, property, one · **What happens:** do, cry, be, feel · **To what, where:** bone

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, witch, property, one), 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:pg5615:29:64
# text = This the daughter did, and the witch cried, ‘Ah! now he is fat--so fat that one can scarcely feel the bone in him.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | this daughter |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the witch |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | property |  |  |  | now | fat *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **feel** | can | one | the bone |  |  |  | in property; scarcely *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bone=Theme in he=Location |

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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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