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title: 'Eat as many loaves as you like, but do me no harm, little maiden,'… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Eat as many loaves as you like, but do me no harm, little maiden,' cried the oven. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 35

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'Eat as many loaves as you like, but do me no harm, little maiden,' cried the oven.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** eat, like, do, cry · **To what, where:** many loaves, harm, me, oven · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg3027:10:35
# text = 'Eat as many loaves as you like, but do me no harm, little maiden,' cried the oven.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
3	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	loaves	loaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
20	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | infinitive |  | many loaves |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loaf=Patient |
| 2 | **like** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **do** | infinitive |  | no harm | me |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | the oven |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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