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title: And immediately a ship appeared upon the sea which resembled in ever… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And immediately a ship appeared upon the sea which resembled in every particular the description given by the gardener’s son, and, stepping on board, he continued his journey. Who acts: ship, sea, son. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 82

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And immediately a ship appeared upon the sea which resembled in every particular the description given by the gardener’s son, and, stepping on board, he continued his journey.

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**Who acts:** ship, sea, son · **What happens:** appear, resemble, give, step, continue, journey · **To what, where:** sea, particular description, board, 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 (ship, sea, son), 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:pg503:2:82
# text = And immediately a ship appeared upon the sea which resembled in every particular the description given by the gardener’s son, and, stepping on board, he continued his journey.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	resembled	resemble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
13	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	description	description	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	stepping	step	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | a ship |  |  | the sea |  | immediately *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon sea=Location |
| 2 | **resemble** | past | the sea |  |  | every particular description |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | participle |  | every particular description *not said here* |  |  |  | by the gardener's son | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **step** | gerund | son *not said here* |  |  | board |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on board=Trajectory |
| 5 | **continue** | past | son | son's journey |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme |
| 6 | **journey** |  | son |  |  |  |  |  | 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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