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title: A small boat was quickly launched, and the prince with a few of his… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: A small boat was quickly launched, and the prince with a few of his bravest friends leaped into it. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The White Ship., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The White Ship., sentence 25

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A small boat was quickly launched, and the prince with a few of his bravest friends leaped into it.

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**What happens:** launch, leap · **To what, where:** small boat, bravest friends, boat

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The White Ship.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg18442:7:25
# text = A small boat was quickly launched, and the prince with a few of his bravest friends leaped into it.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	launched	launch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	bravest	brave	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	leaped	leap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **launch** | past · passive |  | a small boat |  |  |  | the prince with a few of Prince's bravest friends *obl*; quickly *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **leap** | participle |  | Prince's bravest friends *not said here* |  | boat |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into it=Destination |

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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:** «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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