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title: It rose to the boy's knees and still more water was poured. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It rose to the boy's knees and still more water was poured. Who acts: Enough enough. 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 24

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It rose to the boy's knees and still more water was poured.

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**Who acts:** Enough enough · **What happens:** rise, pour · **To what, where:** knees, more water

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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 (Enough enough), 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:pg7439:18:24
# text = It rose to the boy's knees and still more water was poured.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	poured	pour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | Enough enough *= enough* |  |  | the boy's knees |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to knee=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **pour** | past · passive |  | more water |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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:** «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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