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title: And on the third morning, water to wash in and water to drink was st… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And on the third morning, water to wash in and water to drink was standing for the man’s daughter, and milk to wash in and wine to drink for the woman’s daughter; and so it continued ever after. Who acts: water, milk. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, with 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 16

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And on the third morning, water to wash in and water to drink was standing for the man’s daughter, and milk to wash in and wine to drink for the woman’s daughter; and so it continued ever after.

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**Who acts:** water, milk · **What happens:** wash, drink, stand, continue · **To what, where:** milk

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, milk), 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:pg540:37:16
# text = And on the third morning, water to wash in and water to drink was standing for the man’s daughter, and milk to wash in and wine to drink for the woman’s daughter; and so it continued ever after.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	_
27	in	in	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’s	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
42	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	43	advmod	_	_
43	after	after	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash** | to-infinitive | water *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **drink** | to-infinitive | water *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stand** | past · progressive | water | milk |  |  | morning | for the man's daughter | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for daughter=Attribute |
| 4 | **wash** | to-infinitive | water *not said here* | milk *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **drink** | to-infinitive | water *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the woman's daughter | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **continue** | past | milk |  |  |  |  | after *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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