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title: Tiidu told them the story of his shipwreck, and the captain promised… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Tiidu told them the story of his shipwreck, and the captain promised that he should come on board, and sail with them back to Kungla; and thankful indeed was Tiidu to accept the offer, and to show his gratitude by playing on his pipes whenever he was asked to do so. Who acts: Tiidu, captain, thankfu
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 33

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Tiidu told them the story of his shipwreck, and the captain promised that he should come on board, and sail with them back to Kungla; and thankful indeed was Tiidu to accept the offer, and to show his gratitude by playing on his pipes whenever he was asked to do so.

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**Who acts:** Tiidu, captain, thankful Tiidu · **What happens:** tell, promise, come, sail, be, accept · **To what, where:** story, sailors, board, thankful Tiidu, offer, gratitude · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiidu, captain, thankful Tiidu), 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:pg2435:12:33
# text = Tiidu told them the story of his shipwreck, and the captain promised that he should come on board, and sail with them back to Kungla; and thankful indeed was Tiidu to accept the offer, and to show his gratitude by playing on his pipes whenever he was asked to do so.
1	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	shipwreck	shipwreck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	sail	sail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	back	back	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Kungla	Kungla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	thankful	thankful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
31	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	offer	offer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	show	show	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	35	parataxis	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
45	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	41	advcl	_	_
46	on	on	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	pipes	pipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	_
49	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	45	advmod	_	_
50	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux:pass	_	_
52	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	advcl:relcl	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	54	mark	_	_
54	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	xcomp	_	_
55	so	so	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Tiidu | the story of Tiidu's shipwreck | sailors *= sailor* |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the captain |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** | should | captain |  |  | board |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on board=Location |
| 4 | **sail** | infinitive | captain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with sailors *= sailor* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | thankful Tiidu |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **accept** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | thankful Tiidu | the offer |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme |
| 7 | **show** | to-infinitive |  | Tiidu's gratitude |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gratitude=Recipient |
| 8 | **play** | gerund |  |  |  | Tiidu's pipes |  | whenever *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past · passive |  | captain |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 10 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | captain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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