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title: From that time forth he went out no more to fish; nor, indeed, did h… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: From that time forth he went out no more to fish; nor, indeed, did he require to do so, for whenever he went down to the shore it never failed that some wreckage was washed up, and in it all kinds of valuable things. Who acts: Basmus, shore. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pi
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 27

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From that time forth he went out no more to fish; nor, indeed, did he require to do so, for whenever he went down to the shore it never failed that some wreckage was washed up, and in it all kinds of valuable things.

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**Who acts:** Basmus, shore · **What happens:** go out, require, do, go down, not fail, wash up · **To what, where:** more, shore, wreckage

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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, shore), 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:pg5615:12:27
# text = From that time forth he went out no more to fish; nor, indeed, did he require to do so, for whenever he went down to the shore it never failed that some wreckage was washed up, and in it all kinds of valuable things.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	no	no	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	19	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	require	require	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
28	down	down	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
37	wreckage	wreckage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	ccomp	_	_
40	up	up	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nmod	_	_
45	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	46	det	_	_
46	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | Basmus | more |  |  | time | all kinds in wreckage of valuable things *obl*; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **require** | past · do-support | Basmus |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | Basmus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go down** | past | Basmus |  |  |  |  | to the shore; down, whenever *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **not** **fail** | past | shore | the shore *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **wash up** | past · passive |  | some wreckage |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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