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title: There, too, a cauldron was hanging from the wall, bubbling and boili… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There, too, a cauldron was hanging from the wall, bubbling and boiling, but there was no fire under this either. Who acts: cauldron, fire. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 14

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There, too, a cauldron was hanging from the wall, bubbling and boiling, but there was no fire under this either.

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**Who acts:** cauldron, fire · **What happens:** hang, be · **To what, where:** wall, this

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cauldron, fire), 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:pg503:17:14
# text = There, too, a cauldron was hanging from the wall, bubbling and boiling, but there was no fire under this either.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	bubbling	bubbling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	boiling	boiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
22	under	under	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	obl	_	_
24	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past · progressive | a cauldron |  |  | the wall and bubbling and boiling; there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **be** | past | no fire |  |  | this; there |  | either *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under this=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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