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title: Orders were given to lower the boats, and Tiidu with three sailors g… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Orders were given to lower the boats, and Tiidu with three sailors got into one of them, but before they could push away from the ship a huge wave overturned it, and all four were flung into the water. Who acts: Tiidu, orders, huge wave. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Cri
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 90

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Orders were given to lower the boats, and Tiidu with three sailors got into one of them, but before they could push away from the ship a huge wave overturned it, and all four were flung into the water.

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**Who acts:** Tiidu, orders, huge wave · **What happens:** give, lower, get, push away, overturn, fling · **To what, where:** Orders, boats, one, boat, four, water

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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, orders, huge wave), 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:pg2435:11:90
# text = Orders were given to lower the boats, and Tiidu with three sailors got into one of them, but before they could push away from the ship a huge wave overturned it, and all four were flung into the water.
1	Orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	lower	lower	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	overturned	overturn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	det	_	_
37	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	flung	fling	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
40	into	into	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · passive |  | Orders |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lower** | infinitive |  | the boats |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | past | Tiidu with three sailors | one of orders |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 4 | **push away** | could | orders *= order* |  |  |  |  | from the ship; away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from ship=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **overturn** | past | a huge wave | boat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **fling** | past · passive |  | all four |  | the water |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme into water=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:** «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.

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