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title: ‘I can quench my thirst without you,’ and bending over the well he l… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I can quench my thirst without you,’ and bending over the well he lapped up the water so greedily that he plunged his face, beard and all, right into the crystal mirror. Who acts: I, thirst, my. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2, with its dependency tree and
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 18

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‘I can quench my thirst without you,’ and bending over the well he lapped up the water so greedily that he plunged his face, beard and all, right into the crystal mirror.

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**Who acts:** I, thirst, my · **What happens:** quench, bend, lap up, plunge, thirst · **To what, where:** thirst, well, water, face

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, thirst, my), 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:pg7277:27:18
# text = ‘I can quench my thirst without you,’ and bending over the well he lapped up the water so greedily that he plunged his face, beard and all, right into the crystal mirror.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	quench	quench	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	bending	bend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	csubj	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	lapped	lap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	greedily	greedily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	plunged	plunge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	right	right	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	crystal	crystal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quench** | can | I | my thirst |  |  |  | without you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thirst=Experiencer |
| 2 | **bend** | gerund |  |  |  | the well |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over well=Location |
| 3 | **lap up** | past | thirst | the water |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 4 | **plunge** | past | thirst | thirst's face and beard and the crystal mirror |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location face=Theme |
| 5 | **thirst** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom thirst «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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