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title: For a whole month the ship drifted about in darkness, till at length… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For a whole month the ship drifted about in darkness, till at length the fog lifted and they beheld a cliff jutting out just in front. Who acts: ship, fog. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 99

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For a whole month the ship drifted about in darkness, till at length the fog lifted and they beheld a cliff jutting out just in front.

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**Who acts:** ship, fog · **What happens:** drift, lift, behold, jut out · **To what, where:** length, cliff, front

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ship, fog), 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:pg2435:22:99
# text = For a whole month the ship drifted about in darkness, till at length the fog lifted and they beheld a cliff jutting out just in front.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	drifted	drift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fog	fog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	jutting	jut	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	just	just	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drift** | past | the ship |  |  |  | month | about darkness | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about darkness=Trajectory |
| 2 | **lift** | past | the fog |  |  | length |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at length=Destination |
| 3 | **behold** | past | ship | a cliff |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cliff=Stimulus |
| 4 | **jut out** | gerund | ship *not said here* |  |  | front |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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