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title: But he was not altogether wrong, for the clear blue sea is like a gr… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But he was not altogether wrong, for the clear blue sea is like a great pan in which God’s sun all day makes cakes for good children. Who acts: Lasse, clear blue sea, sun. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 13

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But he was not altogether wrong, for the clear blue sea is like a great pan in which God’s sun all day makes cakes for good children.

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**Who acts:** Lasse, clear blue sea, sun · **What happens:** not be, be, make · **To what, where:** cakes, great pan

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lasse, clear blue sea, sun), 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:pg3454:15:13
# text = But he was not altogether wrong, for the clear blue sea is like a great pan in which God’s sun all day makes cakes for good children.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
20	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:unmarked	_	_
25	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
26	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | Lasse |  |  |  |  | altogether, wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the clear blue sea |  |  |  |  | for a great pan | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present | God's sun  all day | cakes |  | a great pan |  | for good children | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent cake=Material for child=Beneficiary |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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