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title: He bit the bread a second and third time, and each time a piece of g… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He bit the bread a second and third time, and each time a piece of gold fell out of his mouth; but the bread remained untouched. Who acts: lad, piece, bread. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 86

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He bit the bread a second and third time, and each time a piece of gold fell out of his mouth; but the bread remained untouched.

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**Who acts:** lad, piece, bread · **What happens:** bite, fall, remain · **To what, where:** bread, mouth

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, piece, bread), 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:pg640:15:86
# text = He bit the bread a second and third time, and each time a piece of gold fell out of his mouth; but the bread remained untouched.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bit	bite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	conj	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
28	untouched	untouched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite** | past | lad | the bread |  |  | time |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |
| 2 | **fall** | past | a piece of gold |  |  | lad's mouth | time |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out mouth=Location |
| 3 | **remain** | past | the bread |  |  |  |  | untouched *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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