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title: Lucky Luck says you will never have any living creature in your wate… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Lucky Luck says you will never have any living creature in your waters until someone is drowned in you.” Who acts: Lucky Luck, you. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 124

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Lucky Luck says you will never have any living creature in your waters until someone is drowned in you.”

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**Who acts:** Lucky Luck, you · **What happens:** say, not have, drown · **To what, where:** living creature, waters, someone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lucky Luck, you), 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:pg2435:2:124
# text = Lucky Luck says you will never have any living creature in your waters until someone is drowned in you.”
1	Lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Luck	Luck	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
9	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Lucky Luck |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **have** | future | you | any living creature |  | your waters |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Patient |
| 3 | **drown** | present · passive |  | someone |  |  |  | in you | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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