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title: MR. G. To carry water, and what were they carrying water for? — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: MR. G. To carry water, and what were they carrying water for? Who acts: G., horses. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 29

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MR. G. To carry water, and what were they carrying water for?

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**Who acts:** G., horses · **What happens:** carry · **To what, where:** water

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (G., horses), 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:pg14241:30:29
# text = MR. G. To carry water, and what were they carrying water for?
1	MR.	MR.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	G.	G.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	To	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	carry	carry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | to-infinitive | G.  MR. | water |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | past · progressive | horses *= horse* | water |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme what=Beneficiary water=Value |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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