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title: Then the servant girl came out to fetch a pail of water, and, being… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the servant girl came out to fetch a pail of water, and, being a kind- hearted lass, she gave some to the horse to drink. Who acts: servant girl, girl. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 80

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Then the servant girl came out to fetch a pail of water, and, being a kind- hearted lass, she gave some to the horse to drink.

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**Who acts:** servant girl, girl · **What happens:** come out, fetch, be, give, drink · **To what, where:** pail, hearted lass, some, horse

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant girl, girl), 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:pg3027:39:80
# text = Then the servant girl came out to fetch a pail of water, and, being a kind- hearted lass, she gave some to the horse to drink.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pail	pail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	lass	lass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | past | the servant girl |  |  |  | then | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | the servant girl *not said here* | a pail of water |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pail=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | gerund |  | a hearted lass |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | past | girl | some | the horse |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent some=Theme to horse=Recipient |
| 5 | **drink** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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