--- title: So his river-sucker came and lay down, and drank one, two, three dra… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So his river-sucker came and lay down, and drank one, two, three draughts, and with that the water in the sea fell so low that the giant saw the Master-maid and the Prince out on the sea in their ship. Who acts: river sucker, water, giant. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river sucker, water, giant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg503:18:17 # text = So his river-sucker came and lay down, and drank one, two, three draughts, and with that the water in the sea fell so low that the giant saw the Master-maid and the Prince out on the sea in their ship. 1 So so ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 sucker sucker NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 9 down down ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 drank drink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 draughts draught NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 21 with with SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 nsubj _ _ 34 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 Master Master PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 maid maid NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 42 out out ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 43 on on ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 46 in in ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | giant's river sucker | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **lay down** | infinitive | giant's river sucker *not said here* | | | | | down *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **drink** | past | giant's river sucker *not said here* | one | | | | three draughts *obl* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | | 4 | **fall** | past | the water in the sea | | | | | low *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **see out** | past | the giant | the Master maid and the Prince | | the sea in Prince's ship | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maid=Stimulus | 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. **Text:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/18/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/18/18/) - ↑ back to [The Master-maid, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/18/)