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title: The pea-shell boats had travelled so far that they only looked like… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The pea-shell boats had travelled so far that they only looked like little specks on the ocean. Who acts: shell boats, frigates. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 66

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The pea-shell boats had travelled so far that they only looked like little specks on the ocean.

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**Who acts:** shell boats, frigates · **What happens:** travell, look

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shell boats, frigates), 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:pg3454:14:66
# text = The pea-shell boats had travelled so far that they only looked like little specks on the ocean.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	pea	pea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	travelled	travell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	specks	speck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travell** | past · perfect | the shell boats |  |  |  |  | far *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | past | frigates *= frigate* |  |  |  |  | like little specks; on the ocean | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on ocean=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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