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title: ‘I will give thee a ship which can sail over fresh water and salt wa… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I will give thee a ship which can sail over fresh water and salt water, over high hills and deep dales,’ answered the old woman. Who acts: I, 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 96

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‘I will give thee a ship which can sail over fresh water and salt water, over high hills and deep dales,’ answered the old woman.

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**Who acts:** I, ship · **What happens:** give, sail, answer · **To what, where:** ship, high hills, fresh water, old woman

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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 (I, 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:pg540:44:96
# text = ‘I will give thee a ship which can sail over fresh water and salt water, over high hills and deep dales,’ answered the old woman.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	iobj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	sail	sail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	iobj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	dales	dale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
26	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | future | I | a ship | high hills and deep dales |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sail** | can | a ship |  |  | fresh water and salt water |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over water=Trajectory |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | the old woman |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent woman=Eventuality |

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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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