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title: Thrusting a large bag inside his coat, he pushed off from the shore,… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Thrusting a large bag inside his coat, he pushed off from the shore, taking care this time to reach the island in daylight. Who acts: Pinkel. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 41

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Thrusting a large bag inside his coat, he pushed off from the shore, taking care this time to reach the island in daylight.

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**Who acts:** Pinkel · **What happens:** thrust, push off, take, reach · **To what, where:** large bag, coat, care, island, daylight

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pinkel), 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:pg3027:17:41
# text = Thrusting a large bag inside his coat, he pushed off from the shore, taking care this time to reach the island in daylight.
1	Thrusting	thrust	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
17	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thrust** | gerund | Pinkel *not said here* | a large bag |  | Pinkel's coat |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme |
| 2 | **push off** | past | Pinkel |  |  |  |  | from the shore | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from shore=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | Pinkel *not said here* | care |  |  | time |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 4 | **reach** | to-infinitive | Pinkel *not said here* | the island |  | daylight |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent island=Theme |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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