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title: ‘A single bucket of water will not quench my thirst; give me more!’ — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘A single bucket of water will not quench my thirst; give me more!’ Who acts: single bucket, my. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 70

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‘A single bucket of water will not quench my thirst; give me more!’

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**Who acts:** single bucket, my · **What happens:** not quench, give, thirst · **To what, where:** thirst, more, me

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (single bucket, my), 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:pg540:7:70
# text = ‘A single bucket of water will not quench my thirst; give me more!’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	quench	quench	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **quench** | future | a single bucket of water | my thirst |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thirst=Experiencer |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive | a single bucket of water *not said here* | more | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient more=Theme |
| 3 | **thirst** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom thirst «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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