--- title: As soon as she came to the river she lay down to take a drink of the… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As soon as she came to the river she lay down to take a drink of the water, but meanwhile the two of them had got down off the roof and thrust her, head first, into the river. Who acts: girl, two. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, two), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg640:42:119 # text = As soon as she came to the river she lay down to take a drink of the water, but meanwhile the two of them had got down off the roof and thrust her, head first, into the river. 1 As as ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 11 down down ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 21 meanwhile meanwhile ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nsubj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nmod _ _ 26 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 parataxis _ _ 28 down down ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 off off ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 thrust thrust NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 34 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 37 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 into into ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | girl | | | the river | | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **lie down** | past | girl | | | | | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **take** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | a drink of the water | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Theme | | 4 | **get down** | past · perfect | the two of others | | | the river | | off the roof and thrust girl and head | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/42/118/) - next →: [sentence 120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/42/120/) - ↑ back to [Prince Ring (30)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/42/)