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title: Whilst he was considering, he observed the old witch take up a cage… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Whilst he was considering, he observed the old witch take up a cage secretly and go with it towards the door. Who acts: Joringel. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jorinde and Joringel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 43

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Whilst he was considering, he observed the old witch take up a cage secretly and go with it towards the door.

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**Who acts:** Joringel · **What happens:** consider, observe, take up, go · **To what, where:** old witch, cage, door

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jorinde and Joringel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Joringel), 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:pg7277:41:43
# text = Whilst he was considering, he observed the old witch take up a cage secretly and go with it towards the door.
1	Whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	considering	consider	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	observed	observe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | past · progressive | Joringel |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **observe** | past | Joringel | the old witch |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take up** | infinitive | Joringel *not said here* | a cage |  |  |  | secretly *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cage=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | Joringel *not said here* |  |  | the door |  | with cage | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards door=Initial\_Location |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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