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title: And in an instant the ship went away as swiftly as any bird in the a… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And in an instant the ship went away as swiftly as any bird in the air till it got just below the King’s palace, and there it stood still. Who acts: ship. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 105

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And in an instant the ship went away as swiftly as any bird in the air till it got just below the King’s palace, and there it stood still.

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**Who acts:** ship · **What happens:** go away, get, stand · **To what, where:** instant, palace

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ship), 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:pg540:44:105
# text = And in an instant the ship went away as swiftly as any bird in the air till it got just below the King’s palace, and there it stood still.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
20	just	just	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
21	below	below	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	30	expl	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
31	still	still	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go away** | past | the ship |  |  | a instant |  | as any bird; in the air; away, swiftly *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in instant=Location |
| 2 | **get** | past | ship | the King's palace |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus |
| 3 | **stand** | past | ship |  |  | there | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «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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