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title: “I am in want of somebody who can bake my bread when I am tired of f… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I am in want of somebody who can bake my bread when I am tired of fruit, and who knows how to make cocoanut cakes.” Who acts: monkey, want. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 23

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“I am in want of somebody who can bake my bread when I am tired of fruit, and who knows how to make cocoanut cakes.”

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**Who acts:** monkey, want · **What happens:** be, bake, know, make · **To what, where:** want, bread, cocoanut cakes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monkey, want), 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:pg3282:36:23
# text = “I am in want of somebody who can bake my bread when I am tired of fruit, and who knows how to make cocoanut cakes.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	nmod	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	bake	bake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	16	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
23	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
26	cocoanut	cocoanut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the monkey *= monkey* |  |  | want |  | of somebody | tree rules |
| 2 | **bake** *in a quote* | can | want | my bread |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Product |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the monkey *= monkey* |  |  |  |  | of fruit; tired *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **make** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | cocoanut cakes |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cake=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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