--- title: As there was no wind at all they lay there becalmed, and Halvor aske… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As there was no wind at all they lay there becalmed, and Halvor asked the skipper to give him leave to go on shore to look about him, for he would much rather do that than lie there and sleep. Who acts: wind, parents, Halvor, skipper. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Ca --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/6/7/) [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/) / [Soria Moria Castle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/6/) / 7 # The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 7 As there was no wind at all they lay there becalmed, and Halvor asked the skipper to give him leave to go on shore to look about him, for he would much rather do that than lie there and sleep. **Who acts:** wind, parents, Halvor, skipper · **What happens:** be, lie, becalm, ask, give, leave · **To what, where:** all, skipper, Halvor, shore, that This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, parents, Halvor, skipper), 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:pg540:6:7 # text = As there was no wind at all they lay there becalmed, and Halvor asked the skipper to give him leave to go on shore to look about him, for he would much rather do that than lie there and sleep. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ _ 3 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 4 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 5 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 3 obl _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 11 becalmed becalm VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 Halvor Halvor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 skipper skipper NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 iobj _ _ 21 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 28 about about ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 for for SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 33 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 34 much much ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 rather rather ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 37 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 obj _ _ 38 than than SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 39 lie lie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 advcl _ _ 40 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 39 advmod _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | no wind | | | all; there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location | | 2 | **lie** | past | parents *= parent* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **becalm** | participle | parents *= parent* *not said here* | | | there | | | tree rules | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Halvor | the skipper | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent skipper=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the skipper *not said here* | | Halvor | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **leave** | infinitive | the skipper *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **go** | to-infinitive | the skipper *not said here* | | | shore | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on shore=Location | | 8 | **look** | to-infinitive | the skipper *not said here* | | | | | about Halvor | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme | | 9 | **do** | would | Halvor | that | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | | 10 | **lie** | infinitive | Halvor *not said here* | | | there | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/6/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/6/8/) - ↑ back to [Soria Moria Castle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/6/)