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title: But when she brought back a third supply he declared that it seemed… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But when she brought back a third supply he declared that it seemed made up of water-lilies, and that he must have water that was pure, and not spoilt by willows, or frogs, or rushes. Who acts: woman, water. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, with
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 51

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But when she brought back a third supply he declared that it seemed made up of water-lilies, and that he must have water that was pure, and not spoilt by willows, or frogs, or rushes.

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**Who acts:** woman, water · **What happens:** bring back, declare, make up, have, be, not spoil · **To what, where:** third supply, supply, water · **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 (woman, 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:pg2435:29:51
# text = But when she brought back a third supply he declared that it seemed made up of water-lilies, and that he must have water that was pure, and not spoilt by willows, or frogs, or rushes.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	supply	supply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	ccomp	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
26	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	spoilt	spoil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	willows	willow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring back** | past | woman | a third supply |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent supply=Theme |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | water |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **make up** | past · passive |  | supply |  |  |  | of water lilies | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot |
| 4 | **have** | must | water | water |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past | water |  |  |  |  | pure *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **spoil** | participle | water *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by willows or frogs or rushes | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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