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title: By the well hang two buckets on a pole that were used, in former day… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: By the well hang two buckets on a pole that were used, in former days, to draw up water. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 93

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By the well hang two buckets on a pole that were used, in former days, to draw up water.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** hang, use, draw up · **To what, where:** two buckets, pole, water

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg3027:6:93
# text = By the well hang two buckets on a pole that were used, in former days, to draw up water.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	hang	hang	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	buckets	bucket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	draw	draw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | imperative | you *not said here* | two buckets |  | a pole |  | by the well | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bucket=Theme by well=Destination |
| 2 | **use** | past · passive |  | a pole |  |  | day |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **draw up** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | water |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |

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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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