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title: How perilous are voyages at sea, how uncertain the winds and the wav… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: How perilous are voyages at sea, how uncertain the winds and the waves, and how many accidents attend a naval life! Who acts: perilous voyages. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 35

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How perilous are voyages at sea, how uncertain the winds and the waves, and how many accidents attend a naval life!

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**Who acts:** perilous voyages · **What happens:** be, attend · **To what, where:** perilous voyages, sea, naval life

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (perilous voyages), 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:pg503:29:35
# text = How perilous are voyages at sea, how uncertain the winds and the waves, and how many accidents attend a naval life!
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	perilous	perilous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	voyages	voyage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	uncertain	uncertain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	accidents	accident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	attend	attend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	naval	naval	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | perilous voyages and the uncertain winds and the waves |  | sea |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **attend** | present | perilous voyages and the uncertain winds and the waves | a naval life |  |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme life=Goal |

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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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