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title: She found them nearly dying for want of water, and hastily poured al… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She found them nearly dying for want of water, and hastily poured all that was left in the pitcher upon them. Who acts: Princess. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 85

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She found them nearly dying for want of water, and hastily poured all that was left in the pitcher upon them.

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**Who acts:** Princess · **What happens:** find, die, pour, leave, want · **To what, where:** legs, that, pitcher, water

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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 (Princess), 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:pg503:22:85
# text = She found them nearly dying for want of water, and hastily poured all that was left in the pitcher upon them.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	poured	pour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	ccomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Princess | legs *= leg* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 2 | **die** | gerund | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for want of water; nearly *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for want=Theme |
| 3 | **pour** | past |  |  |  |  |  | hastily *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | past · passive |  | that |  | the pitcher upon legs |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in pitcher=Location |
| 5 | **want** |  |  | water |  |  |  |  | nom want «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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 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.

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