--- title: Then she suddenly bethought herself of the pitcher of water, and, ho… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then she suddenly bethought herself of the pitcher of water, and, hoping that it might have some magic power, she ran to fetch it, and sprinkled a few drops over the fierce-looking swarm of rats. Who acts: Felicia, water. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pin --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/22/82/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [Felicia and the Pot of Pinks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/22/) / 82 # The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 82 Then she suddenly bethought herself of the pitcher of water, and, hoping that it might have some magic power, she ran to fetch it, and sprinkled a few drops over the fierce-looking swarm of rats. **Who acts:** Felicia, water · **What happens:** bethink, hope, have, run, fetch, sprinkle · **To what, where:** Felicia, magic power, power, few drops, looking swarm · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Felicia, water), 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:pg503:22:82 # text = Then she suddenly bethought herself of the pitcher of water, and, hoping that it might have some magic power, she ran to fetch it, and sprinkled a few drops over the fierce-looking swarm of rats. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 bethought bethink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 pitcher pitcher NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 hoping hope VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 19 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 21 det _ _ 20 magic magic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 fetch fetch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 sprinkled sprinkle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 drops drop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 34 over over ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 36 fierce fierce ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 39 amod _ _ 39 swarm swarm NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bethink** | past | Felicia | Felicia | | | then | of the pitcher of water; suddenly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **hope** | gerund | Felicia *not said here* | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **have** | might | water | some magic power | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | | 4 | **run** | past | Felicia | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | Felicia *not said here* | power | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **sprinkle** | past | Felicia *not said here* | a few drops | | the looking swarm of rats | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent drop=Theme over swarm=Destination | | 7 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/22/81/) - next →: [sentence 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/22/83/) - ↑ back to [Felicia and the Pot of Pinks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/22/)