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title: So they sat down, and when Dullhead brought out his cake he found it… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So they sat down, and when Dullhead brought out his cake he found it had turned into a fine rich cake, and the sour beer into excellent wine. Who acts: cake, Dullhead, beer. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 20

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So they sat down, and when Dullhead brought out his cake he found it had turned into a fine rich cake, and the sour beer into excellent wine.

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**Who acts:** cake, Dullhead, beer · **What happens:** sit down, bring out, find, turn · **To what, where:** excellent wine, cake, fine rich cake · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cake, Dullhead, beer), 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:pg540:48:20
# text = So they sat down, and when Dullhead brought out his cake he found it had turned into a fine rich cake, and the sour beer into excellent wine.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	Dullhead	Dullhead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	ccomp	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	sour	sour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | past | cake |  |  | excellent wine |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring out** | past | Dullhead | Dullhead's cake |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cake=Patient |
| 3 | **find** | past | Dullhead | Dullhead's cake *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent cake=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **turn** | past · perfect | beer |  |  | a fine rich cake |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into cake=Trajectory |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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