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title: So he went out from the feast, where they all sat drinking and makin… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So he went out from the feast, where they all sat drinking and making merry, and he walked alone beside the sea in the dusk of the evening, at the place where the great chest, with himself and his mother in it, had been cast ashore. Who acts: boy, lady. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 29

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So he went out from the feast, where they all sat drinking and making merry, and he walked alone beside the sea in the dusk of the evening, at the place where the great chest, with himself and his mother in it, had been cast ashore.

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**Who acts:** boy, lady · **What happens:** go out, sit, drink, make, walk, cast · **To what, where:** feast, sea, great chest

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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, lady), 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:pg503:27:29
# text = So he went out from the feast, where they all sat drinking and making merry, and he walked alone beside the sea in the dusk of the evening, at the place where the great chest, with himself and his mother in it, had been cast ashore.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
12	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	conj	_	_
16	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	dusk	dusk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
35	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	50	advmod	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	38	nmod	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
48	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	50	aux:pass	_	_
50	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl:relcl	_	_
51	ashore	ashore	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | boy |  |  | the feast |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sit** | past | lady |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **drink** | gerund | lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  | merry *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **walk** | past | boy |  |  | the sea | dusk | at the place; alone *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside sea=Trajectory |
| 6 | **cast** | past · perfect · passive |  | the great chest with boy |  |  |  | ashore *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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