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title: So they sailed away from the ‘Land of Nod,’ and in a little while He… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So they sailed away from the ‘Land of Nod,’ and in a little while Hercules and The Flea were on the shores of Asia away at the other end of the world, where the Ice Sea flows through Behring Straits into the Pacific Ocean. Who acts: ships, Hercules, Ice Sea. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by A
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 94

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So they sailed away from the ‘Land of Nod,’ and in a little while Hercules and The Flea were on the shores of Asia away at the other end of the world, where the Ice Sea flows through Behring Straits into the Pacific Ocean.

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**Who acts:** ships, Hercules, Ice Sea · **What happens:** sail away, be, flow · **To what, where:** Land, shores, Behring Straits

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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 (ships, Hercules, Ice Sea), 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:pg3454:14:94
# text = So they sailed away from the ‘Land of Nod,’ and in a little while Hercules and The Flea were on the shores of Asia away at the other end of the world, where the Ice Sea flows through Behring Straits into the Pacific Ocean.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Nod	Nod	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
18	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Flea	Flea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	advcl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	41	advmod	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	Ice	Ice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	flows	flow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
42	through	through	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	Behring	Behring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	Straits	Strait	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
45	into	into	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail away** | past | ships *= ship* |  |  | the Land of Nod | at the other end of the world | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from land=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | past | Hercules and the Flea |  |  | the shores |  | of Asia | tree rules |
| 3 | **flow** | present | the Ice Sea |  |  | Behring Straits |  | into the Pacific Ocean | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through strait=Location |

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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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