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title: Next morning, when he awoke, he began to wish himself over the moat;… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Next morning, when he awoke, he began to wish himself over the moat; and the thought occurred to him that if only the red ox were there, and thirsty enough to drink up all the water in the moat, he might walk across it dry shod. Who acts: youth, thought, red ox. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» b
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 87

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Next morning, when he awoke, he began to wish himself over the moat; and the thought occurred to him that if only the red ox were there, and thirsty enough to drink up all the water in the moat, he might walk across it dry shod.

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**Who acts:** youth, thought, red ox · **What happens:** awake, begin, wish, occur, be, drink up · **To what, where:** youth, moat, water, thought

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, thought, red ox), 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:pg5615:22:87
# text = Next morning, when he awoke, he began to wish himself over the moat; and the thought occurred to him that if only the red ox were there, and thirsty enough to drink up all the water in the moat, he might walk across it dry shod.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	iobj	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	moat	moat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	occurred	occur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
34	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
37	up	up	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	40	det:predet	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	moat	moat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
48	across	across	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obl	_	_
50	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	xcomp	_	_
51	shod	shoe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** | past | youth |  |  |  | morning |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | past | youth |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **wish** | to-infinitive | youth *not said here* |  | youth | the moat |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=Theme |
| 4 | **occur** | past | the thought |  | youth |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the red ox |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **drink up** | to-infinitive | the thought *not said here* | all water |  | the moat |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 7 | **walk** | might | youth |  |  | thought |  | dry *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across it=Trajectory |
| 8 | **shoe** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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