--- title: ‘So I took the cake as well as the holy water, and was flying back w… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘So I took the cake as well as the holy water, and was flying back with them over the sea, when there fell a great rain, and the sea was swollen, and swept away my millet cake. Who acts: I, sea. 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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 (I, sea), 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:pg641:3:45 # text = ‘So I took the cake as well as the holy water, and was flying back with them over the sea, when there fell a great rain, and the sea was swollen, and swept away my millet cake. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 as as ADV RB ExtPos=ADV 4 advmod _ _ 8 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 fixed _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 holy holy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 flying fly VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 17 back back ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 20 over over ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 25 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 26 expl _ _ 26 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 swollen swollen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 swept sweep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 39 away away ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 41 millet millet NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | I | the cake | | | | as the holy water | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent cake=Theme as water=Attribute | | 2 | **fly back** | past · progressive | I *not said here* | | | the sea | | with hands *= hand* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=Location | | 3 | **fall** | past | I *not said here* | a great rain | | there | | | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient rain=Result | | 4 | **is** | past | the sea | | | | | swollen *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **sweep away** | past | I *not said here* | my millet cake | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cake=Trajectory | 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 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/3/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/3/46/) - ↑ back to [The Finest Liar in the World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/3/)