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title: In the bustle and hurry of departure, the cunning fisherman contrive… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the bustle and hurry of departure, the cunning fisherman contrived that their boat should be the last to put off, and when everything was ready, and the sails about to be set, he suddenly called out: Who acts: cunning fisherman, boat, everything. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lan
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 9

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In the bustle and hurry of departure, the cunning fisherman contrived that their boat should be the last to put off, and when everything was ready, and the sails about to be set, he suddenly called out:

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**Who acts:** cunning fisherman, boat, everything · **What happens:** contrive, be, put off, call out, hurry · **To what, where:** bustle, sails, departure

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cunning fisherman, boat, everything), 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:pg3282:20:9
# text = In the bustle and hurry of departure, the cunning fisherman contrived that their boat should be the last to put off, and when everything was ready, and the sails about to be set, he suddenly called out:
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bustle	bustle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	hurry	hurry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	departure	departure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	cunning	cunning	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	contrived	contrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
22	off	off	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
26	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	cop	_	_
36	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
41	out	out	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contrive** | past | the cunning fisherman |  |  | the bustle and hurry of departure |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | should | men's boat |  |  |  |  | last *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **put off** | to-infinitive | men's boat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | everything |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | set *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle · passive |  | the sails |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 7 | **hurry** |  |  | departure |  |  |  |  | nom hurry «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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