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title: The coast appeared to be strongly guarded, and from afar the watchma… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The coast appeared to be strongly guarded, and from afar the watchman on a high tower called out: “Halt and anchor! Who acts: coast. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 66

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The coast appeared to be strongly guarded, and from afar the watchman on a high tower called out: “Halt and anchor!

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**Who acts:** coast · **What happens:** appear, guard, call out · **To what, where:** Halt, watchman, afar

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coast), 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:pg2435:5:66
# text = The coast appeared to be strongly guarded, and from afar the watchman on a high tower called out: “Halt and anchor!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	strongly	strongly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	guarded	guard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	afar	afar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	watchman	watchman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Halt	halt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	anchor	anchor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | the coast | Halt and anchor |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **guard** | to-infinitive · passive | the coast *not said here* |  |  |  |  | strongly *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING» |
| 3 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle · passive |  | the watchman on a high tower |  | afar |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from afar=Source |

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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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