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title: Where other ships take a year, mine makes the voyage in a day, and w… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Where other ships take a year, mine makes the voyage in a day, and where they would require ten years mine will do the distance in a week.” Who acts: other ships, mine, brothers. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 95

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Where other ships take a year, mine makes the voyage in a day, and where they would require ten years mine will do the distance in a week.”

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**Who acts:** other ships, mine, brothers · **What happens:** take, make, require, do · **To what, where:** voyage, distance

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other ships, mine, brothers), 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:pg2435:4:95
# text = Where other ships take a year, mine makes the voyage in a day, and where they would require ten years mine will do the distance in a week.”
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	require	require	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
21	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | other ships |  |  |  | year |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | present | mine | the voyage |  |  | day |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset voyage=Product |
| 3 | **require** | would | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  | year |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | future | mine | the distance |  |  | week |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=Eventuality |

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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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