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title: She made a bread-soup as well as she possibly could, and when it was… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She made a bread-soup as well as she possibly could, and when it was done, she fetched her gold ring from her little room, and laid it in the tureen in which the soup was to be served up. Who acts: cook. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature,
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# The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 45

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She made a bread-soup as well as she possibly could, and when it was done, she fetched her gold ring from her little room, and laid it in the tureen in which the soup was to be served up.

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**Who acts:** cook · **What happens:** make, do, fetch, lay, serve up · **To what, where:** bread soup, soup, gold ring, little room, tureen

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook), 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:pg7277:42:45
# text = She made a bread-soup as well as she possibly could, and when it was done, she fetched her gold ring from her little room, and laid it in the tureen in which the soup was to be served up.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	fetched	fetch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	gold	gold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	tureen	tureen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	obl	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
42	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl:relcl	_	_
44	up	up	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | cook | a bread soup |  |  |  | well *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=Product |
| 2 | **do** | past · passive |  | soup |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **fetch** | past | cook | cook's gold ring |  | cook's little room |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent ring=Theme from room=Source |
| 4 | **lay** | past | cook *not said here* | soup |  | the tureen |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in tureen=Destination |
| 5 | **serve up** | past · passive | cook *not said here* | the soup |  | the tureen |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in which=Location |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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