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title: In the North Sea lies a dead sea-cat--that shall be their roast meat… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the North Sea lies a dead sea-cat--that shall be their roast meat; and the rib of a whale--that shall be their silver spoon; and the hollow foot of a dead horse--that shall be their wineglass.’ Who acts: that. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother, w
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 53

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In the North Sea lies a dead sea-cat--that shall be their roast meat; and the rib of a whale--that shall be their silver spoon; and the hollow foot of a dead horse--that shall be their wineglass.’

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**Who acts:** that · **What happens:** lie, be · **To what, where:** dead sea cat, North Sea, roast meat, silver spoon, wineglass

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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:pg640:9:53
# text = In the North Sea lies a dead sea-cat--that shall be their roast meat; and the rib of a whale--that shall be their silver spoon; and the hollow foot of a dead horse--that shall be their wineglass.’
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	roast	roast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	rib	rib	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
43	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
44	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	cop	_	_
45	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	wineglass	wineglass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present |  | a dead sea cat and cat's roast meat |  | the North Sea |  | the hollow foot of a dead horse *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | shall | that | cat's roast meat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | shall | that | cat's silver spoon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | shall | that | cat's wineglass |  |  |  |  | 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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