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title: At last, there came a very dry season,--so dry that the farmer's cro… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At last, there came a very dry season,--so dry that the farmer's crops withered for want of rain. Who acts: crops. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 42

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At last, there came a very dry season,--so dry that the farmer's crops withered for want of rain.

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**Who acts:** crops · **What happens:** come, wither, want · **To what, where:** last, rain

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crops), 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:pg7128:22:42
# text = At last, there came a very dry season,--so dry that the farmer's crops withered for want of rain.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	withered	wither	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  |  |  | last; there | season |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location |
| 2 | **wither** | past | the farmer's crops |  |  |  |  | for want of rain | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **want** |  |  | rain |  |  |  |  | nom want «state 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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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