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title: When the cake was baked very hard and dry she took it from the oven… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: When the cake was baked very hard and dry she took it from the oven and rolled it in butter, laying a slice of raw bacon around it. Who acts: task. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Slave Boy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 33

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When the cake was baked very hard and dry she took it from the oven and rolled it in butter, laying a slice of raw bacon around it.

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**Who acts:** task · **What happens:** bake, take, roll, lay, slice · **To what, where:** cake, oven, butter, slice, raw bacon

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Slave Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (task), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:29:33
# text = When the cake was baked very hard and dry she took it from the oven and rolled it in butter, laying a slice of raw bacon around it.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	baked	bake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	laying	lay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	slice	slice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	raw	raw	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	bacon	bacon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	around	around	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bake** | past · passive |  | the cake |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **take** | past | task | cake |  | the oven |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from oven=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **roll** | past | task *not said here* | cake |  | butter |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme in butter=Trajectory |
| 4 | **lay** | gerund | task *not said here* | a slice of raw bacon |  | cake |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent slice=Theme around it=Destination |
| 5 | **slice** |  |  | raw bacon |  |  |  |  | nom slice «possession transitive»: of=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 Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (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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