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title: There was water close at hand, and the prince made his ablution, and… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There was water close at hand, and the prince made his ablution, and then said: “O my heart! a wonderful task lies upon you.” Who acts: water, prince, heart. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 30

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There was water close at hand, and the prince made his ablution, and then said: “O my heart! a wonderful task lies upon you.”

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**Who acts:** water, prince, heart · **What happens:** be, make, say, lie · **To what, where:** ablution · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, prince, heart), 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:pg3282:4:30
# text = There was water close at hand, and the prince made his ablution, and then said: “O my heart! a wonderful task lies upon you.”
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	ablution	ablution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
28	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | water |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | the prince | prince's ablution |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ablution=Product |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the prince *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **lie** *in a quote* | present | my heart |  |  |  |  | upon you | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon you=Location |

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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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