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title: Then he died; and Andras sailed in his boat away across the fiord an… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he died; and Andras sailed in his boat away across the fiord and found the dog and boy. Who acts: dog, Andras. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 5

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Then he died; and Andras sailed in his boat away across the fiord and found the dog and boy.

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**Who acts:** dog, Andras · **What happens:** die, sail, find · **To what, where:** boat, dog

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, Andras), 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:pg3027:37:5
# text = Then he died; and Andras sailed in his boat away across the fiord and found the dog and boy.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Andras	Andras	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
12	across	across	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fiord	fiord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | dog |  |  |  | then |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **sail** | past | Andras |  |  | dog's boat |  | across the fiord; away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across fiord=Trajectory |
| 3 | **find** | past | Andras *not said here* | the dog and boy |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Topic |

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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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