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title: "Open, open, cake that we have made and mingled with blood!" they cr… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Open, open, cake that we have made and mingled with blood!" they cried again. Who acts: we, wood. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Horned Women, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Horned Women, sentence 30

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"Open, open, cake that we have made and mingled with blood!" they cried again.

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**Who acts:** we, wood · **What happens:** make, mingle, cry · **To what, where:** cake · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Horned Women. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, wood), 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:pg7885:8:30
# text = "Open, open, cake that we have made and mingled with blood!" they cried again.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	mingled	mingle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *in a quote* | present · perfect | we | cake |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mingle** *in a quote* | participle | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with blood | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with blood=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | wood |  |  |  | again |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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