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title: Titty was often sent by the bricklayer to fetch water from the fount… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Titty was often sent by the bricklayer to fetch water from the fountain, and as she was very proud and lazy the gypsy disliked this very much. Who acts: bricklayer, woman, gypsy. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 175

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Titty was often sent by the bricklayer to fetch water from the fountain, and as she was very proud and lazy the gypsy disliked this very much.

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**Who acts:** bricklayer, woman, gypsy · **What happens:** send, fetch, be, dislike · **To what, where:** Titty, water, fountain, this

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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 (bricklayer, woman, gypsy), 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:pg540:40:175
# text = Titty was often sent by the bricklayer to fetch water from the fountain, and as she was very proud and lazy the gypsy disliked this very much.
1	Titty	titty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bricklayer	bricklayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	gypsy	gypsy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	disliked	dislike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
26	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	obj	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	much	much	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · passive | the bricklayer | Titty |  |  |  | often *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | the bricklayer *not said here* | water |  | the fountain |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from fountain=Source |
| 3 | **is** | past | woman |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **dislike** | past | the gypsy | this |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |

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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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