--- title: Perhaps his terrible thirst was a trick of the cunning witch, and su… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Perhaps his terrible thirst was a trick of the cunning witch, and suppose, even though he opened the orange on the banks of the stream, that he did not find in it the princess that he sought? Who acts: terrible thirst, traveller. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canar --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/40/126/) [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 Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [The Enchanted Canary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/40/) / 126 # The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 126 Perhaps his terrible thirst was a trick of the cunning witch, and suppose, even though he opened the orange on the banks of the stream, that he did not find in it the princess that he sought? **Who acts:** terrible thirst, traveller · **What happens:** be, suppose, open, not find, seek, thirst · **To what, where:** trick, orange, banks, princess, thirst · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (terrible thirst, traveller), 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:pg540:40:126 # text = Perhaps his terrible thirst was a trick of the cunning witch, and suppose, even though he opened the orange on the banks of the stream, that he did not find in it the princess that he sought? 1 Perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 thirst thirst NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 cunning cunning ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 suppose suppose VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 even even ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 17 though though SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 orange orange NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 banks bank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 stream stream NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 38 that that SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 sought seek VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | traveller's terrible thirst | a trick | | | | of the cunning witch | tree rules | | 2 | **suppose** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **open** | past | traveller | the orange | | the banks of the stream | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent orange=Theme on bank=Location | | 4 | **not** **find** | past · do-support | traveller | the princess | | thirst | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent princess=Attribute clause=Theme | | 5 | **seek** | past | traveller | | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **thirst** | | traveller | | | | | | nom thirst «state intransitive»: 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/40/125/) - next →: [sentence 127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/40/127/) - ↑ back to [The Enchanted Canary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/40/)