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title: Would the charm work, or would the water trickle away slowly through… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Would the charm work, or would the water trickle away slowly through the sand, and the prince fall a victim to that horrible monster? Who acts: prince. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 34

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Would the charm work, or would the water trickle away slowly through the sand, and the prince fall a victim to that horrible monster?

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**Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** fall · **To what, where:** victim

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg3282:26:34
# text = Would the charm work, or would the water trickle away slowly through the sand, and the prince fall a victim to that horrible monster?
1	Would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	trickle	trickle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	victim	victim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
25	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | infinitive | the prince | a victim |  |  |  | to that horrible monster *result* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient victim=Extent to monster=Result |

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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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