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title: “Water yon flower,” cried the boy in despair, pointing to a geranium… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Water yon flower,” cried the boy in despair, pointing to a geranium which stood in a pot on the floor. Who acts: yon flower, geranium. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Master and His Pupil, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil, sentence 21

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“Water yon flower,” cried the boy in despair, pointing to a geranium which stood in a pot on the floor.

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**Who acts:** yon flower, geranium · **What happens:** cry, point, stand · **To what, where:** boy, despair, geranium, pot

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Master and His Pupil. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yon flower, geranium), 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:pg7439:18:21
# text = “Water yon flower,” cried the boy in despair, pointing to a geranium which stood in a pot on the floor.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	yon	yon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	geranium	geranium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | yon flower | the boy |  | despair |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Topic |
| 2 | **point** | gerund | yon flower *not said here* |  | a geranium |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to geranium=Recipient |
| 3 | **stand** | past | a geranium |  |  | a pot |  | on the floor | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pot=Location |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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