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title: ‘Well, I’ll wait a little longer till we reach the next stream, but… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Well, I’ll wait a little longer till we reach the next stream, but then, whatever you may say, I really must drink, for I can bear this thirst no longer.’ Who acts: I, we, you. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 26

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‘Well, I’ll wait a little longer till we reach the next stream, but then, whatever you may say, I really must drink, for I can bear this thirst no longer.’

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**Who acts:** I, we, you · **What happens:** wait, reach, say, drink, bear · **To what, where:** next stream, whatever, thirst · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we, you), 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:pg540:10:26
# text = ‘Well, I’ll wait a little longer till we reach the next stream, but then, whatever you may say, I really must drink, for I can bear this thirst no longer.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
10	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	reach	reach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	really	really	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
34	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
35	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	no	no	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | future | I |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **reach** | present | we | the next stream |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent stream=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | may | you | whatever |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent whatever=Topic |
| 4 | **drink** | must | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **bear** | can | I | this thirst |  |  |  | long *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thirst=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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