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title: Another time they had forgotten to give him any water to drink, so t… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Another time they had forgotten to give him any water to drink, so that he was nearly dead with thirst; and the worst thing of all was that he was in danger of losing his kingdom, for he had been absent so long that all his subjects believed him to be dead. Who acts: eyes, King, worst thing, subject
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 61

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Another time they had forgotten to give him any water to drink, so that he was nearly dead with thirst; and the worst thing of all was that he was in danger of losing his kingdom, for he had been absent so long that all his subjects believed him to be dead.

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**Who acts:** eyes, King, worst thing, subjects · **What happens:** forget, not give, drink, be, lose, believe · **To what, where:** water, King, danger, kingdom

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, King, worst thing, subjects), 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:pg7277:4:61
# text = Another time they had forgotten to give him any water to drink, so that he was nearly dead with thirst; and the worst thing of all was that he was in danger of losing his kingdom, for he had been absent so long that all his subjects believed him to be dead.
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	19	mark	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	_
26	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	nmod	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	_
35	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
36	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
42	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	44	cop	_	_
44	absent	absent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
45	so	so	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	conj	_	_
47	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
48	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	50	det:predet	_	_
49	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nsubj	_	_
51	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	advcl	_	_
52	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obj	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
54	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	cop	_	_
55	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | past · perfect | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **give** | to-infinitive | eyes *= eye* *not said here* | any water | King |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient water=Theme |
| 3 | **drink** | to-infinitive | eyes *= eye* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | King |  |  |  |  | with thirst; dead, nearly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | the worst thing of all |  |  | danger |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **lose** | gerund | the worst thing of all *not said here* | King's kingdom |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Eventuality |
| 7 | **is** | past · perfect | King |  |  |  |  | absent *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **be** |  | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **believe** | past | King's subjects | King |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 10 | **is** | to-infinitive | King's subjects *not said here* |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |

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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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