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title: Here's another cake--maybe it's not so hard as that." — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Here's another cake--maybe it's not so hard as that." Who acts: cake, size. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 98

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Here's another cake--maybe it's not so hard as that."

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**Who acts:** cake, size · **What happens:** be, not be

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cake, size), 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:pg7885:22:98
# text = Here's another cake--maybe it's not so hard as that."
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | another cake |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | size |  |  |  |  | as that; hard, maybe *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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