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title: On the third day, however, Basmus came to shore again and had his bo… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On the third day, however, Basmus came to shore again and had his boat full of fish, so big and fat that no one had ever seen their like. Who acts: Basmus, one. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 23

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On the third day, however, Basmus came to shore again and had his boat full of fish, so big and fat that no one had ever seen their like.

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**Who acts:** Basmus, one · **What happens:** come, have, see · **To what, where:** shore, boat

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Basmus, one), 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:pg5615:12:23
# text = On the third day, however, Basmus came to shore again and had his boat full of fish, so big and fat that no one had ever seen their like.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	however	however	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	Basmus	Basmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	30	advmod	_	_
30	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	30	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Basmus |  |  | shore | again; day | however *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to shore=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **have** | past | Basmus *not said here* | Basmus's boat |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | past · perfect | no one |  |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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