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title: When the Blefuscudians saw the fleet moving in order, and me pulling… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Blefuscudians saw the fleet moving in order, and me pulling at the end, they set up a scream of grief and despair that it is impossible to describe. Who acts: Blefuscudians, fleet, me, despair. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 19

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When the Blefuscudians saw the fleet moving in order, and me pulling at the end, they set up a scream of grief and despair that it is impossible to describe.

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**Who acts:** Blefuscudians, fleet, me, despair, grief · **What happens:** see, move, pull, set up, be, describe · **To what, where:** fleet, order, scream

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Blefuscudians, fleet, me, despair), 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:pg503:46:19
# text = When the Blefuscudians saw the fleet moving in order, and me pulling at the end, they set up a scream of grief and despair that it is impossible to describe.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Blefuscudians	Blefuscudian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fleet	fleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	scream	scream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	expl	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	describe	describe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the Blefuscudians | the fleet |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fleet=Stimulus |
| 2 | **move** | gerund | the fleet *not said here* |  |  | order |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in order=Trajectory |
| 3 | **pull** | gerund | me |  |  |  | at the end |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at end=Theme |
| 4 | **set up** | past | Blefuscudians *= blefuscudian* | a scream of grief and despair |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient scream=Result |
| 5 | **is** | present | despair *not said here* |  |  |  |  | impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **describe** | to-infinitive | despair *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **scream** |  | grief and despair |  |  |  |  |  | nom scream «communication intransitive»: of=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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