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title: The boats glided along rapidly, but Lina’s, from being heavier, was… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The boats glided along rapidly, but Lina’s, from being heavier, was always behind the rest. Who acts: boats. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 72

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The boats glided along rapidly, but Lina’s, from being heavier, was always behind the rest.

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**Who acts:** boats · **What happens:** glide, be · **To what, where:** rest

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boats), 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:pg540:2:72
# text = The boats glided along rapidly, but Lina’s, from being heavier, was always behind the rest.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	glided	glide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	along	along	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Lina	Lina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	cop	_	_
13	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	19	advmod	_	_
17	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glide** | past | the boats |  |  |  |  | 's Lina; along, rapidly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the rest |  | always *property* | tree rules |

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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 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.

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