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title: The wom-an was baking some cakes upon the hearth, and she looked wit… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: The wom-an was baking some cakes upon the hearth, and she looked with pity upon the poor, ragged fellow who seemed so hungry. Who acts: wom, poor ragged fellow. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Cakes., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Cakes., sentence 14

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The wom-an was baking some cakes upon the hearth, and she looked with pity upon the poor, ragged fellow who seemed so hungry.

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**Who acts:** wom, poor ragged fellow · **What happens:** bake, look, seem · **To what, where:** cakes

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Cakes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wom, poor ragged fellow), 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:pg18442:3:14
# text = The wom-an was baking some cakes upon the hearth, and she looked with pity upon the poor, ragged fellow who seemed so hungry.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wom	wom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	baking	bake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hearth	hearth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	ragged	ragged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bake** | past · progressive | the wom *not said here* | some cakes |  |  |  | upon the hearth | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Product |
| 2 | **look** | past | the wom |  |  |  |  | with pity; upon the poor ragged fellow | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon fellow=Theme |
| 3 | **seem** | past | the poor ragged fellow |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |

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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:** «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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