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title: ‘Water, water!’ he cried in his despair, ‘do have pity upon me and d… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Water, water!’ he cried in his despair, ‘do have pity upon me and do not wet me like this.’ Who acts: Water, Medio. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 57

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‘Water, water!’ he cried in his despair, ‘do have pity upon me and do not wet me like this.’

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**Who acts:** Water, Medio · **What happens:** cry, have, not wet, despair · **To what, where:** despair, pity, me

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Water, Medio), 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:pg7277:6:57
# text = ‘Water, water!’ he cried in his despair, ‘do have pity upon me and do not wet me like this.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
16	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	wet	wet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Water and water |  |  | Medio's despair |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in despair=Location |
| 2 | **have** | present · do-support | Water and water *not said here* | pity |  |  |  | upon me | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **wet** | infinitive · do-support | Water and water *not said here* | me |  |  |  | like this | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 4 | **despair** |  | Medio |  |  |  |  |  | nom despair «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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