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title: ‘My pot has cracked in the fire, lend me yours to cook my supper in,… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘My pot has cracked in the fire, lend me yours to cook my supper in, and I will give you a handful of corn in return.’ Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 56

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‘My pot has cracked in the fire, lend me yours to cook my supper in, and I will give you a handful of corn in return.’

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** crack, lend, cook, give · **To what, where:** pot, fire, yours, me, supper, handful

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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:pg3454:20:56
# text = ‘My pot has cracked in the fire, lend me yours to cook my supper in, and I will give you a handful of corn in return.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	cracked	crack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	lend	lend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	cook	cook	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	handful	handful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crack** | present · perfect · passive |  | My pot |  | the fire |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **lend** | imperative | you *not said here* | yours | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient your=Theme |
| 3 | **cook** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | my supper |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent supper=Patient |
| 4 | **give** | future | I | a handful of corn in return | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient handful=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 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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