--- title: The minister left the rest of his followers on board the ship, and t… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The minister left the rest of his followers on board the ship, and taking a small boat rowed himself to land, in order to look about him and to find out if the island was really as deserted as it seemed. Who acts: minister, taking, it. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (minister, taking, it), 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:pg2435:22:101 # text = The minister left the rest of his followers on board the ship, and taking a small boat rowed himself to land, in order to look about him and to find out if the island was really as deserted as it seemed. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 minister minister NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 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 followers follower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 board board ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 csubj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 rowed row VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 19 obj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 land land VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 in in SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 27 mark _ _ 25 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 fixed _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 28 about about ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 find find VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 33 out out ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 if if SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 38 really really ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 39 as as ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 deserted desert VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 advcl _ _ 41 as as SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | past | the minister | the rest of Minister's followers on the ship | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme | | 2 | **take** | gerund | | a small boat | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | | 3 | **row** | past | taking | Minister | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **land** | to-infinitive | taking *not said here* | | | | | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **look** | to-infinitive | | | | | | about Minister | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme | | 6 | **find out** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **desert** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive | | the island | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **seem** | past | it | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | 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 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/22/100/) - next →: [The Crimson Fairy Book, part…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/23/1/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/22/)