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title: When they reached the capital they landed and ran to the palace, lea… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When they reached the capital they landed and ran to the palace, leaving only the blind mouse on the shore to take care of the boat. Who acts: mice. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 194

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When they reached the capital they landed and ran to the palace, leaving only the blind mouse on the shore to take care of the boat.

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**Who acts:** mice · **What happens:** reach, land, run, leave, take · **To what, where:** capital, blind mouse, shore, care

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mice), 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:pg503:2:194
# text = When they reached the capital they landed and ran to the palace, leaving only the blind mouse on the shore to take care of the boat.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
24	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | mice *= mouse* | the capital |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent capital=Theme |
| 2 | **land** | past | mice *= mouse* |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **run** | past | mice *= mouse* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the palace *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to palace=Result |
| 4 | **leave** | gerund | mice *= mouse* *not said here* | the blind mouse |  | the shore |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme on shore=Location |
| 5 | **take** | to-infinitive | mice *= mouse* *not said here* | care |  |  |  | of the boat | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of boat=Initial\_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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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