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title: But the waters seized her chariot and sunk it in the lowest depths,… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the waters seized her chariot and sunk it in the lowest depths, and the waves bore the wicked old woman down the stream till she was caught in some thorn bushes, where she made a good meal for all the little fishes that were swimming about. Who acts: waters, waves, water, little fishes. A senten
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 35

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But the waters seized her chariot and sunk it in the lowest depths, and the waves bore the wicked old woman down the stream till she was caught in some thorn bushes, where she made a good meal for all the little fishes that were swimming about.

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**Who acts:** waters, waves, water, little fishes · **What happens:** seize, sink, bear, catch, make, swim · **To what, where:** chariot, lowest depths, wicked old woman, water, thorn bushes, good meal

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waters, waves, water, little fishes), 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:pg640:26:35
# text = But the waters seized her chariot and sunk it in the lowest depths, and the waves bore the wicked old woman down the stream till she was caught in some thorn bushes, where she made a good meal for all the little fishes that were swimming about.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sunk	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	lowest	low	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	down	down	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
32	thorn	thorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	37	advmod	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
42	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	45	det:predet	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	_
46	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	nsubj	_	_
47	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	45	acl:relcl	_	_
49	about	about	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past | the waters | water's chariot |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chariot=Theme |
| 2 | **sink** | past | the waters *not said here* | chariot |  | the lowest depths |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **bear** | past | the waves | the wicked old woman |  |  |  | down the stream | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Patient |
| 4 | **catch** | past · passive |  | water |  | some thorn bushes |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | past | water | a good meal |  |  |  | for all little fishes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent meal=Product for fish=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **swim** | past · progressive | all little fishes |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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