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title: Directly the last mouthful had disappeared she was seized with such… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Directly the last mouthful had disappeared she was seized with such violent thirst that she caught up a great pot full of water and drank it at a single draught. Who acts: last mouthful, mouthful. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency t
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 33

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Directly the last mouthful had disappeared she was seized with such violent thirst that she caught up a great pot full of water and drank it at a single draught.

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**Who acts:** last mouthful, mouthful · **What happens:** disappear, seize, catch up, drink · **To what, where:** mouthful, great pot, pot, single draught

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last mouthful, mouthful), 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:pg5615:35:33
# text = Directly the last mouthful had disappeared she was seized with such violent thirst that she caught up a great pot full of water and drank it at a single draught.
1	Directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	seized	seize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	draught	draught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disappear** | past · perfect | the last mouthful |  |  |  |  | directly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **seize** | past · passive |  | mouthful |  |  |  | with such violent thirst | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **catch up** | past | mouthful | a great pot |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme |
| 4 | **drink** | past | mouthful *not said here* | pot |  | a single draught |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 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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