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title: The water-pot was almost too heavy for her now, but morning and even… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The water-pot was almost too heavy for her now, but morning and evening she carried it to the spring, though the effort to lift it to her shoulder was often too much for her. Who acts: water pot, Tephany, effort. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, wit
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 31

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The water-pot was almost too heavy for her now, but morning and evening she carried it to the spring, though the effort to lift it to her shoulder was often too much for her.

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**Who acts:** water pot, Tephany, effort · **What happens:** be, carry, lift · **To what, where:** pot, shoulder

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water pot, Tephany, effort), 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:pg3454:33:31
# text = The water-pot was almost too heavy for her now, but morning and evening she carried it to the spring, though the effort to lift it to her shoulder was often too much for her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	though	though	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
34	often	often	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	too	too	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	ccomp	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the water pot |  |  |  |  | heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry** | past | Tephany | pot |  |  | morning; spring |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **lift** | to-infinitive | the effort *not said here* | pot |  | Tephany's shoulder |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to shoulder=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | past | the effort |  |  |  |  | for Tephany; much, often *property* | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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