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title: When I got to the well everything was frozen hard, so in order to dr… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When I got to the well everything was frozen hard, so in order to draw some water I had to take off my head and break the ice with it. Who acts: I, water. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 60

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When I got to the well everything was frozen hard, so in order to draw some water I had to take off my head and break the ice with it.

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**Who acts:** I, water · **What happens:** get, freeze, draw, have, take off, break · **To what, where:** everything, head, ice

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, water), 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:pg641:3:60
# text = When I got to the well everything was frozen hard, so in order to draw some water I had to take off my head and break the ice with it.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	well	well	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
10	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	16	mark	_	_
14	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	fixed	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	draw	draw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	off	off	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **freeze** | past · passive |  | everything |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
| 3 | **draw** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | some water |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **take off** | to-infinitive | some water *not said here* | my head |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 6 | **break** | infinitive | some water *not said here* | the ice |  |  |  | with water | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ice=Patient with it=Instrument |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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