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title: The fairy queen had to go to a neighbouring well, to fetch water for… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The fairy queen had to go to a neighbouring well, to fetch water for her bath. Who acts: fairy queen. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 203

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The fairy queen had to go to a neighbouring well, to fetch water for her bath.

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**Who acts:** fairy queen · **What happens:** have, go, neighbour, fetch · **To what, where:** water

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy queen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76982:19:203
# text = The fairy queen had to go to a neighbouring well, to fetch water for her bath.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	obl	_	_
9	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the fairy queen |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | the fairy queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **neighbour** | gerund | the fairy queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | the fairy queen *not said here* | water |  |  |  | for queen's bath | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme for bath=Source |

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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:** «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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