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title: So while some embarked upon the sea, the others ran from kingdom to… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So while some embarked upon the sea, the others ran from kingdom to kingdom beating drums and blowing trumpets, and wherever a crowd collected they cried: Who acts: others, crowd. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 58

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So while some embarked upon the sea, the others ran from kingdom to kingdom beating drums and blowing trumpets, and wherever a crowd collected they cried:

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**Who acts:** others, crowd · **What happens:** embark, run, beat, blow, collect, cry · **To what, where:** kingdom, drums, trumpets

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, crowd), 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:pg540:4:58
# text = So while some embarked upon the sea, the others ran from kingdom to kingdom beating drums and blowing trumpets, and wherever a crowd collected they cried:
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
2	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	nsubj	_	_
4	embarked	embark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	beating	beat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
17	drums	drum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
20	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	collected	collect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **embark** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | past | the others |  |  | kingdom |  | to kingdom *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to kingdom=Result |
| 3 | **beat** | gerund | the others *not said here* | drums |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=Theme |
| 4 | **blow** | gerund | the others *not said here* | trumpets |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent trumpet=Patient |
| 5 | **collect** | past | a crowd |  |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | others *= other* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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