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title: In despair, he wandered along the coast, hoping to see some ship or… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In despair, he wandered along the coast, hoping to see some ship or sailing boat that would take him where he wished to go, and at length he reached the town of Narva, where several merchantmen were lying at anchor. Who acts: Tiidu, ship, several merchantmen. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» b
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 16

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In despair, he wandered along the coast, hoping to see some ship or sailing boat that would take him where he wished to go, and at length he reached the town of Narva, where several merchantmen were lying at anchor.

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**Who acts:** Tiidu, ship, several merchantmen · **What happens:** wander, hope, see, take, wish, go · **To what, where:** despair, ship, Tiidu, town, length, anchor

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiidu, ship, several merchantmen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2435:929`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2435:11:16
# text = In despair, he wandered along the coast, hoping to see some ship or sailing boat that would take him where he wished to go, and at length he reached the town of Narva, where several merchantmen were lying at anchor.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	along	along	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	sailing	sailing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Narva	Narva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	42	advmod	_	_
39	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	merchantmen	merchantman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
41	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	acl:relcl	_	_
43	at	at	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	anchor	anchor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past | Tiidu |  |  | despair |  | along the coast | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in despair=Trajectory |
| 2 | **hope** | gerund | Tiidu *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Tiidu *not said here* | some ship or sailing boat |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ship=Stimulus |
| 4 | **take** | would | some ship or sailing boat |  | Tiidu |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 5 | **wish** | past | Tiidu |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Tiidu *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **reach** | past | Tiidu | the town of Narva |  | length |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent town=Theme at length=Asset |
| 8 | **lie** | past · progressive | several merchantmen |  |  | anchor |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at anchor=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:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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