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title: I had been told that the ship's cook must know how to prepare every… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I had been told that the ship's cook must know how to prepare every dish at sea, and it is easy enough to do that with plenty of sides of bacon, and large tubs of salt meat and mouldy flour. Who acts: cook. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Litt
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 4

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I had been told that the ship's cook must know how to prepare every dish at sea, and it is easy enough to do that with plenty of sides of bacon, and large tubs of salt meat and mouldy flour.

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**Who acts:** cook · **What happens:** tell, know, prepare, be, do · **To what, where:** I, large tubs, dish, sea, that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook), 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:pg27200:179:4
# text = I had been told that the ship's cook must know how to prepare every dish at sea, and it is easy enough to do that with plenty of sides of bacon, and large tubs of salt meat and mouldy flour.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	expl	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
24	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	obj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	bacon	bacon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	tubs	tub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	iobj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	mouldy	mouldy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | I | large tubs of salt meat and mouldy flour |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | must | the ship's cook |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **prepare** | to-infinitive |  | every dish |  | sea |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | easy, enough *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive |  | that |  |  |  | with plenty of sides of bacon | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |

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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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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