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title: ‘Bake some bread,’ was all her husband answered, ‘then take the crus… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Bake some bread,’ was all her husband answered, ‘then take the crust and put it in this little bag.’ Who acts: you, husband. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 116

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‘Bake some bread,’ was all her husband answered, ‘then take the crust and put it in this little bag.’

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**Who acts:** you, husband · **What happens:** bake, be, take, put · **To what, where:** bread, crust, little bag

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, husband), 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:pg5615:34:116
# text = ‘Bake some bread,’ was all her husband answered, ‘then take the crust and put it in this little bag.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Bake	bake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	‘	‘	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	crust	crust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bake** | imperative | you *not said here* | some bread |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Product |
| 2 | **is** | past | Paris's husband |  |  |  |  | all, answer *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive |  | the crust |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crust=Theme |
| 4 | **put** | infinitive |  | crust |  | this little bag |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bag=Destination |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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