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title: The brothers launched a small boat, took some of their valuable good… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The brothers launched a small boat, took some of their valuable goods with them, rowed to shore and went up to the palace. Who acts: brothers. 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 72

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The brothers launched a small boat, took some of their valuable goods with them, rowed to shore and went up to the palace.

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**Who acts:** brothers · **What happens:** launch, take, row, go up · **To what, where:** small boat, some, shore

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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 (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:pg2435:5:72
# text = The brothers launched a small boat, took some of their valuable goods with them, rowed to shore and went up to the palace.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	launched	launch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	9	nmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	rowed	row	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **launch** | past | the brothers | a small boat |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past |  | some |  |  |  | with jewels *= jewel* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme |
| 3 | **row** | past |  |  |  | shore |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to shore=Trajectory |
| 4 | **go up** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to the palace | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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