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title: A single drop of its water falling on the sand around will trace the… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A single drop of its water falling on the sand around will trace the name of my rival in her heart. Who acts: single drop. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 79

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A single drop of its water falling on the sand around will trace the name of my rival in her heart.

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**Who acts:** single drop · **What happens:** fall, trace, name · **To what, where:** sand, name, heart, rival

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (single drop), 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:pg640:17:79
# text = A single drop of its water falling on the sand around will trace the name of my rival in her heart.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	around	around	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	trace	trace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	rival	rival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | gerund | a single drop of drop's water *not said here* |  |  | the sand |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on sand=Location |
| 2 | **trace** | future | a single drop of drop's water | the name of my rival |  | Argentine's heart |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent name=Theme in heart=Destination |
| 3 | **name** |  |  | my rival |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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