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title: Just then one of the attendants came to the water’s edge to fill a c… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Just then one of the attendants came to the water’s edge to fill a cup, and though the prince was in hiding, his face was reflected in the water. Who acts: one, prince. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 44

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Just then one of the attendants came to the water’s edge to fill a cup, and though the prince was in hiding, his face was reflected in the water.

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**Who acts:** one, prince · **What happens:** come, fill, hide, reflect · **To what, where:** edge, cup, face, water

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, prince), 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:pg3282:2:44
# text = Just then one of the attendants came to the water’s edge to fill a cup, and though the prince was in hiding, his face was reflected in the water.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | one of the attendants |  |  | the water's edge | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to edge=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **fill** | to-infinitive | one of the attendants *not said here* | a cup |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cup=Patient |
| 3 | **hide** | past · progressive | the prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **reflect** | past · passive |  | prince's face |  | the water |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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