--- title: Again he heard the water-lily’s lament, and, hesitating no longer, s… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Again he heard the water-lily’s lament, and, hesitating no longer, smeared himself all over with mud, and, saying: “From a man into a crab,” plunged into the river. Who acts: prince, water lily. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, with its dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/109/) [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/) / [The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/) / 109 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 109 Again he heard the water-lily’s lament, and, hesitating no longer, smeared himself all over with mud, and, saying: “From a man into a crab,” plunged into the river. **Who acts:** prince, water lily · **What happens:** hear, hesitate, smear, say, plunge, lament · **To what, where:** lament, prince, man, river · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, water lily), 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:pg503:26:109 # text = Again he heard the water-lily’s lament, and, hesitating no longer, smeared himself all over with mud, and, saying: “From a man into a crab,” plunged into the river. 1 Again again ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 lily lily NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ’s 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 lament lament NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 hesitating hesitate VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 14 no no ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 smeared smear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 17 obj _ _ 19 all all ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 over over ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 28 “ " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 From from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 ccomp _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 crab crab NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ” " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 37 plunged plunge VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl _ _ 38 into into ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | prince | the water lily's lament | | | again | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer lament=Stimulus | | 2 | **hesitate** | gerund | prince *not said here* | | | | | long *property* | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **smear** | past | prince *not said here* | prince | | | | with mud; over *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination with mud=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **plunge** | participle | | a man into a crab *not said here* | | the river | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into river=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **lament** | | the water lily | | | | | | nom lament «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/108/) - next →: [sentence 110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/110/) - ↑ back to [The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/)