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title: And in a moment the ship went off so fast that the yellow foam rose… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And in a moment the ship went off so fast that the yellow foam rose up all round about it. Who acts: ship, yellow foam. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 50

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And in a moment the ship went off so fast that the yellow foam rose up all round about it.

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**Who acts:** ship, yellow foam · **What happens:** go off, rise up

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ship, yellow foam), 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:pg540:46:50
# text = And in a moment the ship went off so fast that the yellow foam rose up all round about it.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	moment	moment	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	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	all	all	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	round	round	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
19	about	about	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go off** | past | the ship |  |  |  | moment | fast *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rise up** | past | the yellow foam |  |  |  |  | about ship; round *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about it=Location |

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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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