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title: Ah, if we had only a hot cup of coffee now, and a nice piece of whit… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Ah, if we had only a hot cup of coffee now, and a nice piece of white bread to dip into it!’ Who acts: we. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 10

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Ah, if we had only a hot cup of coffee now, and a nice piece of white bread to dip into it!’

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** have, dip · **To what, where:** hot cup, bread

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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:pg3454:25:10
# text = Ah, if we had only a hot cup of coffee now, and a nice piece of white bread to dip into it!’
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	coffee	coffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	dip	dip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | we | a hot cup of coffee |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dip** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  | bread |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into it=Location |

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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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