--- title: The ship took a long while to build, and cost a great deal of money,… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The ship took a long while to build, and cost a great deal of money, and when it was launched a sudden squall rose, and it fell to pieces, and with it all the young man’s hopes of winning the princess. Who acts: ship, hopes. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ship, hopes), 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:pg5615:19:34 # text = The ship took a long while to build, and cost a great deal of money, and when it was launched a sudden squall rose, and it fell to pieces, and with it all the young man’s hopes of winning the princess. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 cost cost VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 launched launch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 squall squall NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 rose rose NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 37 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 36 acl:relcl _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’s 's PART POS _ 40 case _ _ 42 hopes hope NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 43 of of SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 44 winning win VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 42 acl _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | the ship | | | | while | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **build** | to-infinitive | the ship *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **cost** | infinitive | the ship *not said here* | a great deal of money | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme deal=Value | | 4 | **launch** | past · passive | | ship | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination rose=Theme | | 5 | **fall** | past | ship | | | | | to pieces | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to piece=Theme | | 6 | **hope** | | ship | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **win** | gerund | the young man's hopes *not said here* | the princess | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality | | 8 | **deal** | | | money | | | | | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/19/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/19/35/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/19/)