--- title: When, however, it came to the turn of the thirteenth dish, which nob… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When, however, it came to the turn of the thirteenth dish, which nobody ever wanted to eat, a huge black cat ran up, and stood on the rock close to the cock, while the dish was on his other side. Who acts: table, nobody, thirteenth dish, huge black cat. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (table, nobody, thirteenth dish, huge black cat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:2:116 # text = When, however, it came to the turn of the thirteenth dish, which nobody ever wanted to eat, a huge black cat ran up, and stood on the rock close to the cock, while the dish was on his other side. 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 however however ADV RB _ 6 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 turn turn NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 thirteenth thirteenth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 dish dish NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 obj _ _ 16 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 18 nsubj _ _ 17 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 18 advmod _ _ 18 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 27 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 39 while while SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 dish dish NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 43 on on ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 45 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | table | | | the turn of the thirteenth dish | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to turn=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **want** | past | nobody | the thirteenth dish | | | ever | | tree rules | | 3 | **eat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the thirteenth dish *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **run up** | past | a huge black cat | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **stand** | past | table *not said here* | | | the rock | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location | | 6 | **is** | past | the dish | | | cock's other side | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/2/115/) - next →: [sentence 117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/2/117/) - ↑ back to [A Tale of the Tontlawald](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/2/)