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title: Then a dreadful thirst seized her and the donkey, but there was no s… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then a dreadful thirst seized her and the donkey, but there was no stream to quench it, and if there had been she would hardly have had time to stop, for she still had far to go, and must be back before evening, or else the crocodile might declare that the prince had not fulfilled his conditions. Wh
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 7

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Then a dreadful thirst seized her and the donkey, but there was no stream to quench it, and if there had been she would hardly have had time to stop, for she still had far to go, and must be back before evening, or else the crocodile might declare that the prince had not fulfilled his conditions.

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**Who acts:** dreadful thirst, stream, princess, crocodile · **What happens:** seize, be, quench, have, stop, go · **To what, where:** princess, stream, prince

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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 (dreadful thirst, stream, princess, crocodile), 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:pg3282:26:7
# text = Then a dreadful thirst seized her and the donkey, but there was no stream to quench it, and if there had been she would hardly have had time to stop, for she still had far to go, and must be back before evening, or else the crocodile might declare that the prince had not fulfilled his conditions.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	donkey	donkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	quench	quench	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	29	expl	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	aux:pass	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	amod	_	_
30	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	still	still	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
38	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	37	advmod	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
43	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
44	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	cop	_	_
45	back	back	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
46	before	before	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
49	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
50	else	else	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
53	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	declare	declare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	_
55	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	60	mark	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nsubj:pass	_	_
58	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
59	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	60	advmod	_	_
60	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	54	advcl	_	_
61	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
62	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past | a dreadful thirst | princess |  |  | then; time |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | no stream |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **quench** | to-infinitive | no stream *not said here* | stream |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer |
| 4 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | would · past · perfect · passive |  | princess |  | there |  | hardly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **stop** | to-infinitive | a dreadful thirst *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **have** | past | princess |  |  |  | still | far *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **is** | must |  |  |  |  | before evening |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **declare** *speech: other* | might | the crocodile |  |  |  |  | else *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **not** **fulfil** | past · perfect · passive |  | the prince |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **condition** |  | crocodile |  |  |  |  |  | nom condition «state transitive»: poss=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 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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