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title: Then he waded into the water up to his chin, and after being nearly… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he waded into the water up to his chin, and after being nearly drowned once or twice he at last succeeded in getting hold of the Princess’s bed and dragging it on shore. Who acts: dog. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 219

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Then he waded into the water up to his chin, and after being nearly drowned once or twice he at last succeeded in getting hold of the Princess’s bed and dragging it on shore.

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**Who acts:** dog · **What happens:** wade up, drown, succeed, get, drag, hold · **To what, where:** water, dog, hold, shore, bed

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog), 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:pg540:11:219
# text = Then he waded into the water up to his chin, and after being nearly drowned once or twice he at last succeeded in getting hold of the Princess’s bed and dragging it on shore.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	waded	wade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
17	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	16	advmod	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	17	conj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
23	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
26	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	dragging	drag	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wade up** | past | dog |  |  | the water | then | to dog's chin | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Destination |
| 2 | **drown** | gerund · passive |  | dog |  |  |  | nearly, once *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **succeed** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get** | gerund |  | hold of the Princess's bed |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus |
| 5 | **drag** | gerund |  | hold |  | shore |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **hold** |  |  | the Princess's bed |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act 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 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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