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title: One day they sent her to the brook to fetch some water home, and an… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One day they sent her to the brook to fetch some water home, and an ugly and horrible head rose up out of the water, and said, ‘Wash me, girl!’ Who acts: sister, ugly head. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 9

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One day they sent her to the brook to fetch some water home, and an ugly and horrible head rose up out of the water, and said, ‘Wash me, girl!’

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**Who acts:** sister, ugly head · **What happens:** send, fetch, rise up, say, wash · **To what, where:** mother, brook, water, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, ugly head), 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:pg540:47:9
# text = One day they sent her to the brook to fetch some water home, and an ugly and horrible head rose up out of the water, and said, ‘Wash me, girl!’
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	home	home	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	ccomp	_	_
33	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | sister | mother |  | the brook | day |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to brook=Destination |
| 2 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | sister *not said here* | some water |  |  |  | home *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 3 | **rise up** | past | a ugly head |  |  | the water |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out water=Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | sister *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **wash** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  | girl *obl* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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