--- title: So for two days they floated up and down the sea, wet and shivering… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So for two days they floated up and down the sea, wet and shivering with the cold, and so hungry that when the Princess saw some oysters she caught them, and she and Frisk both ate some, though they didn’t like them at all. Who acts: Princess, fish. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/207/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [Princess Rosette](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/) / 207 # The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 207 So for two days they floated up and down the sea, wet and shivering with the cold, and so hungry that when the Princess saw some oysters she caught them, and she and Frisk both ate some, though they didn’t like them at all. **Who acts:** Princess, fish · **What happens:** float up, shiver, see, catch, eat, not like · **To what, where:** oysters, Princess, some, all This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, fish), 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:pg540:11:207 # text = So for two days they floated up and down the sea, wet and shivering with the cold, and so hungry that when the Princess saw some oysters she caught them, and she and Frisk both ate some, though they didn’t like them at all. 1 So so ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 2 for for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 floated float VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 9 down down ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 shivering shiver VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 cold cold NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 28 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 29 det _ _ 29 oysters oyster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 Frisk Frisk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 38 both both ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 40 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 42 though though SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 43 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 44 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 45 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 46 advmod _ _ 46 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 conj _ _ 47 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 obj _ _ 48 at at ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **float up** | past | Princess | | | | day | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **shiver** | gerund | Princess *not said here* | | | | | with the cold | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **see** | past | the Princess | some oysters | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oyster=Stimulus | | 4 | **catch** | past | fish | Princess | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **eat** | past | fish | some | | | | both *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient | | 6 | **not** **like** | past · do-support | Princess | oysters *= oyster* | | all | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=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 206](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/206/) - next →: [sentence 208](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/208/) - ↑ back to [Princess Rosette](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/)