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title: At length the vessel was safe in port, and a whisper went through th… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At length the vessel was safe in port, and a whisper went through the watching crowd that on board was the Sister of the Sun, who had come to marry the young peasant as she had promised. Who acts: vessel, whisper, that, Sister. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Boo
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 84

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At length the vessel was safe in port, and a whisper went through the watching crowd that on board was the Sister of the Sun, who had come to marry the young peasant as she had promised.

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**Who acts:** vessel, whisper, that, Sister · **What happens:** be, go, watch, come, marry, promise · **To what, where:** length, watching crowd, Sister, board

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vessel, whisper, that, Sister), 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:pg3282:23:84
# text = At length the vessel was safe in port, and a whisper went through the watching crowd that on board was the Sister of the Sun, who had come to marry the young peasant as she had promised.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	whisper	whisper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	parataxis	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	parataxis	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	peasant	peasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	ccomp	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the vessel |  |  | length |  | in port; safe *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | a whisper |  |  | the watching crowd |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through crowd=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **watch** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | that | the Sister |  | board |  | of the Sun | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | past · perfect | the Sister |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **marry** | to-infinitive | the Sister *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · perfect | whisper |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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