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title: But the ogre’s wife was still alive, for she had taken no part in ki… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the ogre’s wife was still alive, for she had taken no part in kindling the fire. Who acts: wife, part. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 108

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But the ogre’s wife was still alive, for she had taken no part in kindling the fire.

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**Who acts:** wife, part · **What happens:** be, take, kindle · **To what, where:** part, fire

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, part), 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:pg641:41:108
# text = But the ogre’s wife was still alive, for she had taken no part in kindling the fire.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	kindling	kindle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the ogre's wife |  |  |  | still | alive *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past · perfect | wife | no part |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 3 | **kindle** | gerund | no part *not said here* | the fire |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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