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title: The whole night and the whole day the pot was made to boil; there wa… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The whole night and the whole day the pot was made to boil; there was not a fire-place in the whole town where they did not know what was being cooked, whether it was at the chancellor’s or at the shoemaker’s. Who acts: whole day, pot, whole night, kisses. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by An
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 70

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The whole night and the whole day the pot was made to boil; there was not a fire-place in the whole town where they did not know what was being cooked, whether it was at the chancellor’s or at the shoemaker’s.

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**Who acts:** whole day, pot, whole night, kisses · **What happens:** make, boil, not be, not know, cook, be · **To what, where:** pot, fire place, whole town, chancellor · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole day, pot, whole night, kisses), 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:pg640:43:70
# text = The whole night and the whole day the pot was made to boil; there was not a fire-place in the whole town where they did not know what was being cooked, whether it was at the chancellor’s or at the shoemaker’s.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	boil	boil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl:relcl	_	_
31	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
33	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
39	at	at	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	chancellor	chancellor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	’s	's	PART	POS	_	41	case	_	_
43	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	at	at	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	’s	's	PART	POS	_	46	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive | the whole day *not said here* | the pot |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **boil** | to-infinitive | the pot *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | past | the whole night and the whole day | a fire place |  | the whole town |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | kisses *= kiss* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **cook** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **is** | past | pot |  |  | the chancellor or the shoemaker |  |  | tree rules |

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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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