--- title: For two days they ran before it, and hoped that by keeping well out… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: For two days they ran before it, and hoped that by keeping well out to sea they might be able to weather the storm, when, suddenly, the ship struck on a rock, and began to fill. Who acts: ship. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, with its dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/11/89/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/11/) / 89 # The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 89 For two days they ran before it, and hoped that by keeping well out to sea they might be able to weather the storm, when, suddenly, the ship struck on a rock, and began to fill. **Who acts:** ship · **What happens:** run, hope, keep, be, strike, begin · **To what, where:** wind, weather, ship, rock · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (ship), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2435:11:89 # text = For two days they ran before it, and hoped that by keeping well out to sea they might be able to weather the storm, when, suddenly, the ship struck on a rock, and began to fill. 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 before before ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 hoped hope VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 12 by by SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 keeping keep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 csubj _ _ 14 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 15 out out ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 cop _ _ 21 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 ccomp _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 xcomp _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 33 struck strike VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 fill fill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | past | ship | | | wind | day | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before it=Trajectory | | 2 | **hope** | past | ship *not said here* | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **keep** | gerund | | | | | | out *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | might | ship | weather and the storm | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **strike** | participle | | the ship *not said here* | | a rock | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rock=Location | | 6 | **begin** | past | ship *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **fill** | to-infinitive | ship *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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. **Text:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/11/88/) - next →: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/11/90/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/11/)