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title: Let the hull be of fine gold, the masts of silver, the sails of broc… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Let the hull be of fine gold, the masts of silver, the sails of brocade; let the crew consist of twelve young men of noble appearance, dressed like kings. Who acts: you, hull, crew. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 79

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Let the hull be of fine gold, the masts of silver, the sails of brocade; let the crew consist of twelve young men of noble appearance, dressed like kings.

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**Who acts:** you, hull, crew · **What happens:** let, be, consist, dress · **To what, where:** hull, crew, noble appearance

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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, hull, crew), 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:pg503:2:79
# text = Let the hull be of fine gold, the masts of silver, the sails of brocade; let the crew consist of twelve young men of noble appearance, dressed like kings.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hull	hull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	masts	mast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	brocade	brocade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
19	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	crew	crew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	consist	consist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
25	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
32	like	like	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | the hull |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | infinitive | the hull *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of fine gold | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the crew |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **consist** | infinitive | the crew *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of twelve young men of noble appearance | tree rules |
| 5 | **dress** | participle |  | noble appearance *not said here* |  |  |  | like kings | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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