--- title: The ogress came slowly and gently along, stretching out her hands be… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The ogress came slowly and gently along, stretching out her hands before her, so that she might not fall against anything unawares, for she had only a tiny lantern slung at her waist, which did not give much light. Who acts: ogress. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/41/30/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Story of Halfman](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/41/) / 30 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 30 The ogress came slowly and gently along, stretching out her hands before her, so that she might not fall against anything unawares, for she had only a tiny lantern slung at her waist, which did not give much light. **Who acts:** ogress · **What happens:** come, stretch out, not fall, sling, not give · **To what, where:** hands, anything unawares, tiny lantern, waist 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 (ogress), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:41:30 # text = The ogress came slowly and gently along, stretching out her hands before her, so that she might not fall against anything unawares, for she had only a tiny lantern slung at her waist, which did not give much light. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 ogress ogress NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 gently gently ADV RB _ 4 conj _ _ 7 along along ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 stretching stretch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 10 out out ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 13 before before ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 21 mark _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 fixed _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 22 against against ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 24 compound _ _ 24 unawares unaware NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 28 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 29 only only ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 lantern lantern NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 parataxis _ _ 33 slung sling VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 waist waist NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 obj _ _ 39 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 acl:relcl _ _ 42 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the ogress | | | | | along, slowly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **stretch out** | gerund | the ogress *not said here* | ogress's hands | | | before ogress | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | | 3 | **not** **fall** | might | ogress | | | anything unawares | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme against unaware=Location | | 4 | **sling** | participle | | a tiny lantern *not said here* | | ogress's waist | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at waist=Destination | | 5 | **not** **give** | past · do-support | | ogress's waist | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent which=Recipient light=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/41/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/41/31/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Halfman](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/41/)