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title: In the morning the witch gave the girl two pieces of linen to weave… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the morning the witch gave the girl two pieces of linen to weave before night, and the boy a pile of wood to cut into chips. Who acts: witch, boy. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 51

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In the morning the witch gave the girl two pieces of linen to weave before night, and the boy a pile of wood to cut into chips.

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**Who acts:** witch, boy · **What happens:** give, weave, pile, cut · **To what, where:** two pieces, girl

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, boy), 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:pg640:39:51
# text = In the morning the witch gave the girl two pieces of linen to weave before night, and the boy a pile of wood to cut into chips.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	weave	weave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
15	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	chips	chip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the witch | two pieces of linen | the girl |  | morning |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient piece=Theme |
| 2 | **weave** | to-infinitive | the witch *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pile** |  | the boy |  |  |  |  | of wood | tree rules |
| 4 | **cut** | to-infinitive | the witch *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into chips | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into chip=Patient |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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