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description: She therefore told her daughter to heat up the big oven while she was away, take Esben out of his prison, and roast him in there before she came back. Who acts: witch. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 67

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She therefore told her daughter to heat up the big oven while she was away, take Esben out of his prison, and roast him in there before she came back.

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**Who acts:** witch · **What happens:** tell, heat up, be, take, roast, come back · **To what, where:** daughter, big oven, Esben, prison, property · **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 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg5615:29:67
# text = She therefore told her daughter to heat up the big oven while she was away, take Esben out of his prison, and roast him in there before she came back.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	heat	heat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
18	Esben	Esben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	roast	roast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	obl	_	_
29	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
32	back	back	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | witch |  | witch's daughter |  |  | therefore *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **heat up** | to-infinitive |  | the big oven |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent oven=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | witch |  |  |  |  | away *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive |  | Esben |  | property's prison |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent esben=Theme out prison=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **roast** | infinitive |  | property |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient in there=Instrument |
| 6 | **come back** | past | witch |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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