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title: One of us must pour boiling porridge out of the pot on her, and the… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One of us must pour boiling porridge out of the pot on her, and the other punch her with red-hot iron.’ Who acts: One, other. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 138

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One of us must pour boiling porridge out of the pot on her, and the other punch her with red-hot iron.’

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**Who acts:** One, other · **What happens:** pour, boil, punch · **To what, where:** porridge, pot, hag

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, other), 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:pg640:42:138
# text = One of us must pour boiling porridge out of the pot on her, and the other punch her with red-hot iron.’
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	pour	pour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	porridge	porridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nsubj	_	_
18	punch	punch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pour** | must | One of us |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **boil** | gerund | One of us *not said here* | porridge |  | the pot on hag |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent porridge=Patient |
| 3 | **punch** | infinitive | the other | hag |  |  |  | with hot iron | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with iron=Instrument |

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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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