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title: I am dying of thirst, let go! in God’s name.’ — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I am dying of thirst, let go! in God’s name.’ Who acts: I, you, God. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 41

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I am dying of thirst, let go! in God’s name.’

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**Who acts:** I, you, God · **What happens:** die, let, go, name · **To what, where:** name

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, God), 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:pg3282:5:41
# text = I am dying of thirst, let go! in God’s name.’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | present · progressive | I |  |  |  |  | of thirst | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of thirst=Causer |
| 2 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | God's name |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in name=Location |
| 4 | **name** |  | God |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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