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title: “The mills have only just begun working, and the flour will not be g… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “The mills have only just begun working, and the flour will not be ground till evening, and how can I heat the oven seven times in one night?” Who acts: flour, poor man. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 16

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“The mills have only just begun working, and the flour will not be ground till evening, and how can I heat the oven seven times in one night?”

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**Who acts:** flour, poor man · **What happens:** begin, work, not be, heat · **To what, where:** mills, ground, oven

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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 (flour, poor man), 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:pg2435:13:16
# text = “The mills have only just begun working, and the flour will not be ground till evening, and how can I heat the oven seven times in one night?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mills	mill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	begun	begin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
17	till	till	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	heat	heat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | the mills |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | future | the flour | ground |  |  | evening |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **heat** *in a quote* | can | the poor man *= man* | the oven |  |  | night; time |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent oven=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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