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title: Presently the boy and his mother and his wife set sail for his mothe… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Presently the boy and his mother and his wife set sail for his mother’s own country, from which she had been driven so unkindly. Who acts: boy. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 123

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Presently the boy and his mother and his wife set sail for his mother’s own country, from which she had been driven so unkindly.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** set, drive · **To what, where:** sail, mother

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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:pg503:27:123
# text = Presently the boy and his mother and his wife set sail for his mother’s own country, from which she had been driven so unkindly.
1	Presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	unkindly	unkindly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past | the boy and boy's mother and boy's wife | sail |  |  |  | for boy's mother's own country; presently *property* | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sail=Patient for country=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **drive** | past · perfect · passive |  | mother |  |  |  | unkindly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme from which=Trajectory |

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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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