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title: For months we have lived together, and I have twice every day drawn… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For months we have lived together, and I have twice every day drawn the water, while he only poured it into the trenches. Who acts: we, I, day, jackal. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 50

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For months we have lived together, and I have twice every day drawn the water, while he only poured it into the trenches.

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**Who acts:** we, I, day, jackal · **What happens:** live together, have, draw, pour · **To what, where:** water, trenches

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, I, day, jackal), 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:pg3027:19:50
# text = For months we have lived together, and I have twice every day drawn the water, while he only poured it into the trenches.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	advmod	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	poured	pour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	trenches	trench	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live together** | present · perfect | we |  |  |  | month | together *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | I |  |  |  | day | twice *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **draw** | participle | every day *not said here* | the water |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 4 | **pour** | past | jackal | water |  | the trenches |  |  | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into trench=Destination |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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