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title: When the king heard of it, he sent for the cook, and told him that b… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the king heard of it, he sent for the cook, and told him that by the next morning he must have all the bread that the oven, heated seven times over, could bake. Who acts: king, oven. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 14

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When the king heard of it, he sent for the cook, and told him that by the next morning he must have all the bread that the oven, heated seven times over, could bake.

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**Who acts:** king, oven · **What happens:** hear, send, tell, have, heat, bake · **To what, where:** king, bread, oven · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, oven), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2435:1089`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2435:13:14
# text = When the king heard of it, he sent for the cook, and told him that by the next morning he must have all the bread that the oven, heated seven times over, could bake.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	obj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	heated	heat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
33	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl:unmarked	_	_
35	over	over	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
37	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	bake	bake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl:relcl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the king |  |  |  |  | of bread | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **send** | past | king |  |  |  |  | for the cook | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | king *not said here* |  | king |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **have** | must | king | all bread |  |  | morning |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |
| 5 | **heat** | participle |  | the oven *not said here* |  |  |  | over *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **bake** | could | the oven | all bread |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Product |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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