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title: The old woman instantly seized the bigger, and staggering under the… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The old woman instantly seized the bigger, and staggering under the weight of it, disappeared into the forest, hardly waiting even to say good-bye. Who acts: old woman. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 95

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The old woman instantly seized the bigger, and staggering under the weight of it, disappeared into the forest, hardly waiting even to say good-bye.

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**Who acts:** old woman · **What happens:** seize, stagger, disappear, wait, say · **To what, where:** weight, forest, good bye · **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 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman), 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:pg5615:36:95
# text = The old woman instantly seized the bigger, and staggering under the weight of it, disappeared into the forest, hardly waiting even to say good-bye.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	staggering	stagger	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
11	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
27	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	bye	bye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past | the old woman |  |  |  |  | instantly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stagger** | gerund | the old woman *not said here* |  |  | the weight of weight |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under weight=Trajectory |
| 3 | **disappear** | past | the old woman *not said here* |  |  | the forest |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wait** | gerund | the old woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the old woman *not said here* | good bye |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bye=Topic |

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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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