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title: I stored the boat with meat and drink, and took six cows and two bul… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I stored the boat with meat and drink, and took six cows and two bulls alive, with as many ewes and rams, intending to carry them into my own country; and to feed them on board, I had a good bundle of hay and a bag of corn. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter V, 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter V, sentence 15

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I stored the boat with meat and drink, and took six cows and two bulls alive, with as many ewes and rams, intending to carry them into my own country; and to feed them on board, I had a good bundle of hay and a bag of corn.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** store, take, intend, carry, feed, have · **To what, where:** boat, six cows, cows, own country, board, good bundle

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg503:47:15
# text = I stored the boat with meat and drink, and took six cows and two bulls alive, with as many ewes and rams, intending to carry them into my own country; and to feed them on board, I had a good bundle of hay and a bag of corn.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stored	store	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	bulls	bull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	ewes	ewe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	rams	ram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	intending	intend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	feed	feed	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
38	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	iobj	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **store** | past | I | the boat |  |  |  | with meat and drink | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | I *not said here* |  | six cows and two bulls |  |  | with many ewes and rams; alive *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument cow=Destination |
| 3 | **intend** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **carry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | cows *= cow* |  | my own country |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **feed** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  | cows *= cow* | board |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 6 | **have** | past | I | a good bundle of hay and a bag of corn |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Patient |

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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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