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title: Then the beardless one got up, threw the flour into the tub, and mad… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the beardless one got up, threw the flour into the tub, and made a hole in the middle, telling the boy to fetch some water from the river in his two hands, to mix the cake. Who acts: beardless one. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World, with its depe
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 14

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Then the beardless one got up, threw the flour into the tub, and made a hole in the middle, telling the boy to fetch some water from the river in his two hands, to mix the cake.

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**Who acts:** beardless one · **What happens:** get up, throw, make, tell, fetch, mix · **To what, where:** flour, tub, hole, middle, boy, water · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beardless one), 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:pg641:3:14
# text = Then the beardless one got up, threw the flour into the tub, and made a hole in the middle, telling the boy to fetch some water from the river in his two hands, to mix the cake.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	beardless	beardless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tub	tub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	mix	mix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get up** | past | the beardless one |  |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **throw** | past | the beardless one *not said here* | the flour |  |  |  | into the tub *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer flour=Theme into tub=Result |
| 3 | **make** | past |  | a hole |  | the middle |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  | the boy |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **fetch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | some water |  | the river |  | in boy's two hands | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from river=Source |
| 6 | **mix** | to-infinitive |  | the cake |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient |

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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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