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title: “This water tastes of rushes,” he exclaimed, “go and get some fresh.” — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “This water tastes of rushes,” he exclaimed, “go and get some fresh.” Who acts: water. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 50

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“This water tastes of rushes,” he exclaimed, “go and get some fresh.”

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**Who acts:** water · **What happens:** taste, exclaim, go, get · **To what, where:** fresh · **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 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water), 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:pg2435:29:50
# text = “This water tastes of rushes,” he exclaimed, “go and get some fresh.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tastes	taste	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **taste** *in a quote* | present | this water |  |  |  |  | of rushes | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | water |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | some fresh |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fresh=Stimulus |

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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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