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title: “First we’ll bake,” said the old dame; “I’ve heated the oven already… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “First we’ll bake,” said the old dame; “I’ve heated the oven already and kneaded the dough.” Who acts: we, old dame. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 107

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“First we’ll bake,” said the old dame; “I’ve heated the oven already and kneaded the dough.”

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**Who acts:** we, old dame · **What happens:** bake, say, heat, knead · **To what, where:** old hag, dough · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, old dame), 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:pg503:35:107
# text = “First we’ll bake,” said the old dame; “I’ve heated the oven already and kneaded the dough.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	bake	bake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	dame	dame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’ve	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	heated	heat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	already	already	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	kneaded	knead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	dough	dough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bake** *in a quote* | future | we |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old dame |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **heat** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | the old hag *= hag* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **knead** *in a quote* | past |  | the dough |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent dough=Material |

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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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