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title: ‘A kettle full of gold and silver, do you call that nonsense?’ — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘A kettle full of gold and silver, do you call that nonsense?’ Who acts: kettle. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 94

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‘A kettle full of gold and silver, do you call that nonsense?’

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**Who acts:** kettle · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** nonsense · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kettle), 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:pg641:16:94
# text = ‘A kettle full of gold and silver, do you call that nonsense?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present · do-support | a kettle | that nonsense |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nonsense=Recipient |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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