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title: “Prepare a splendid ship in which I may continue my journey. — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Prepare a splendid ship in which I may continue my journey. Who acts: you, son, my. 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 78

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“Prepare a splendid ship in which I may continue my journey.

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**Who acts:** you, son, my · **What happens:** prepare, continue, journey · **To what, where:** splendid ship, journey

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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 (you, son, my), 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:pg503:2:78
# text = “Prepare a splendid ship in which I may continue my journey.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	continue	continue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prepare** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | a splendid ship |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Patient |
| 2 | **continue** *in a quote* | may | son | my journey |  | a splendid ship |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme |
| 3 | **journey** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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 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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