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title: So he promised, and this time a wave lifted the vessel clean off the… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So he promised, and this time a wave lifted the vessel clean off the rocks, and she was in the open sea once more. Who acts: king, wave, time, vessel. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 92

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So he promised, and this time a wave lifted the vessel clean off the rocks, and she was in the open sea once more.

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**Who acts:** king, wave, time, vessel · **What happens:** promise, lift, clean off, be · **To what, where:** vessel, rocks, open sea · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (king, wave, time, vessel), 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:pg3282:17:92
# text = So he promised, and this time a wave lifted the vessel clean off the rocks, and she was in the open sea once more.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	lifted	lift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	clean	clean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
25	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	26	advmod	_	_
26	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **lift** | participle | a wave *not said here* | the vessel |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme |
| 3 | **clean off** | infinitive | this time | the rocks |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rock=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | vessel |  |  | the open sea |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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