--- title: In a moment they touched land, and the company jumped out of the boa… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: In a moment they touched land, and the company jumped out of the boats; and the princes, after having securely fastened their barques, gave their arms to the princesses and conducted them to the castle. Who acts: sides, company, princes. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/77/) [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/) / [The Twelve Dancing Princesses](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/) / 77 # The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 77 In a moment they touched land, and the company jumped out of the boats; and the princes, after having securely fastened their barques, gave their arms to the princesses and conducted them to the castle. **Who acts:** sides, company, princes · **What happens:** touch, jump out, have, fasten, give, conduct · **To what, where:** land, boats, barques, arms, princesses, sides 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 (sides, company, princes), 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:pg540:2:77 # text = In a moment they touched land, and the company jumped out of the boats; and the princes, after having securely fastened their barques, gave their arms to the princesses and conducted them to the castle. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 out out ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 boats boat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 princes prince NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 after after SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 22 having have VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 acl _ _ 23 securely securely ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 fastened fasten VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 25 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 barques barque NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 princesses princess NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 conducted conduct VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 36 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **touch** | past | sides *= side* | land | | | moment | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme land=Co-Theme | | 2 | **jump out** | past | the company | the boats | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme boat=Trajectory | | 3 | **have** | gerund | the princes *not said here* | | | | | securely *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **fasten** | past | the princes | sides's barques | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barque=Patient | | 5 | **give** | past | the princes *not said here* | sides's arms | the princesses | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent arm=Theme to princess=Recipient | | 6 | **conduct** | past | the princes *not said here* | sides *= side* | | the castle | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to castle=Destination | 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 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/78/) - ↑ back to [The Twelve Dancing Princesses](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/)