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title: In the evening, when it was time for the animals to have their drink… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the evening, when it was time for the animals to have their drink before going to bed, they found the lake quite dry, and they had to make up their minds to be thirsty till the water flowed again and the streams were full. Who acts: ground, animals, water, streams. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy B
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 41

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In the evening, when it was time for the animals to have their drink before going to bed, they found the lake quite dry, and they had to make up their minds to be thirsty till the water flowed again and the streams were full.

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**Who acts:** ground, animals, water, streams · **What happens:** be, have, go, find, make up, flow · **To what, where:** time, drink, bed, lake, minds

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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 (ground, animals, water, streams), 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:pg5615:35:41
# text = In the evening, when it was time for the animals to have their drink before going to bed, they found the lake quite dry, and they had to make up their minds to be thirsty till the water flowed again and the streams were full.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	up	up	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	cop	_	_
38	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	advcl	_	_
39	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	flowed	flow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	_
43	again	again	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	streams	stream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nsubj	_	_
47	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
48	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | ground | time |  |  |  | for the animals | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | animals *= animal* *not said here* | animals's drink |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | animals *= animal* *not said here* |  |  | bed |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **find** | past | animals *= animal* | the lake |  |  | evening |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=Topic |
| 5 | **have** | past | animals *= animal* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **make up** | to-infinitive | animals *= animal* *not said here* | animals's minds |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot |
| 7 | **is** | to-infinitive | animals *= animal* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thirsty *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **flow** | past | the water |  |  |  | again |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **is** | past | the streams |  |  |  |  | full *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **mind** |  | animals *= animal* |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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 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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