--- title: They took a boat and put out to sea, carrying with them the bushel o… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: They took a boat and put out to sea, carrying with them the bushel of gold pieces, and enough dresses to last the Princess ten years if she wore two every day, and they did nothing but laugh and sing. Who acts: King, enough dresses, Rosette, dresses. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, enough dresses, Rosette, dresses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg540:11:112 # text = They took a boat and put out to sea, carrying with them the bushel of gold pieces, and enough dresses to last the Princess ten years if she wore two every day, and they did nothing but laugh and sing. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 7 out out ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 carrying carry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 bushel bushel NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 dresses dress NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 last last VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 29 if if SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 wore wear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 32 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 obj _ _ 33 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 34 det _ _ 34 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 39 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 38 obj _ _ 40 but but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 laugh laugh VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 sing sing VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | King | a boat | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | | 2 | **put out** | participle | King *not said here* | | | | | to sea | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **carry** | gerund | King *not said here* | the bushel of gold pieces | | | | with King | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bushel=Theme | | 4 | **last** | to-infinitive | enough dresses | the Princess | | | year | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme princess=Value | | 5 | **wear** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Rosette | two | | | day | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent two=Source | | 6 | **do** | past | dresses *= dress* | nothing | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | | 7 | **laugh** | present | dresses *= dress* *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | dresses *= dress* *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **Text:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/111/) - next →: [sentence 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/113/) - ↑ back to [Princess Rosette](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/)