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title: It was a beau-ti-ful ship with white sails and white masts, and it h… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a beau-ti-ful ship with white sails and white masts, and it had been fitted up on purpose for this voyage. Who acts: ship. 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 9

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It was a beau-ti-ful ship with white sails and white masts, and it had been fitted up on purpose for this voyage.

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**Who acts:** ship · **What happens:** be, fit up · **To what, where:** beau ti ful ship, ship, purpose

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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: who acts (ship), 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:pg18442:7:9
# text = It was a beau-ti-ful ship with white sails and white masts, and it had been fitted up on purpose for this voyage.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
4	beau	beau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	ti	ti	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	ful	ful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	masts	mast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	fitted	fit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | ship | a beau ti ful ship |  |  |  | with white sails and white masts | tree rules |
| 2 | **fit up** | past · perfect · passive |  | ship |  | purpose |  | for this voyage | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme on purpose=Trajectory |

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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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