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title: And, behold! there stood the bread piled high—four, five, six ovens… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And, behold! there stood the bread piled high—four, five, six ovens full, and the seventh still waiting to be taken out of the oven. Who acts: seventh. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 34

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And, behold! there stood the bread piled high—four, five, six ovens full, and the seventh still waiting to be taken out of the oven.

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**Who acts:** seventh · **What happens:** stand, pile, wait, take out · **To what, where:** bread, 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 (seventh), 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:pg2435:13:34
# text = And, behold! there stood the bread piled high—four, five, six ovens full, and the seventh still waiting to be taken out of the oven.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	piled	pile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	ovens	oven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
18	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	seventh	seventh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	still	still	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | the bread |  | there |  | four *obl*; six ovens *obl* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bread=Stimulus |
| 2 | **pile** | participle |  | the bread *not said here* |  |  |  | high *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wait** | gerund | the seventh |  |  |  | still |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **take out** | to-infinitive · passive | the seventh *not said here* | the oven |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: oven=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:** «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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