--- title: Immediately the genii of the ring set to work, and the old black ves… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Immediately the genii of the ring set to work, and the old black vessel became once more the wonderful golden ship with sails of brocade; the handsome sailors ran to the silver masts and the silken ropes, and very soon they set sail for the capital. Who acts: genii, old black vessel, handsome sailor --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/223/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Bronze Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/) / 223 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 223 Immediately the genii of the ring set to work, and the old black vessel became once more the wonderful golden ship with sails of brocade; the handsome sailors ran to the silver masts and the silken ropes, and very soon they set sail for the capital. **Who acts:** genii, old black vessel, handsome sailors, sailors · **What happens:** set, work, become, run, mast · **To what, where:** wonderful golden ship, sail 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 (genii, old black vessel, handsome sailors, sailors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg503:2:223 # text = Immediately the genii of the ring set to work, and the old black vessel became once more the wonderful golden ship with sails of brocade; the handsome sailors ran to the silver masts and the silken ropes, and very soon they set sail for the capital. 1 Immediately immediately ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 genii genii NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 vessel vessel NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 17 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 18 advmod _ _ 18 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 16 advmod _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 xcomp _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 sails sail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 brocade brocade NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 handsome handsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 sailors sailor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 35 masts mast VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 parataxis _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 silken silken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 ropes rope NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 42 very very ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 45 advmod _ _ 44 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 46 sail sail NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 47 for for ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set** | past | the genii of the ring | | | | | immediately *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **work** | to-infinitive | the genii of the ring *not said here* | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **become** | past | the old black vessel | the wonderful golden ship with sails of brocade | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **run** | past | the handsome sailors | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **mast** | present | | | | | | to the silver | tree rules | | 6 | **set** | past | sailors *= sailor* | sail | | | | for the capital; soon *property* | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sail=Patient for capital=Beneficiary | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 222](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/222/) - next →: [sentence 224](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/224/) - ↑ back to [The Bronze Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/)