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title: So he called together all the shipbuilders throughout the country, a… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So he called together all the shipbuilders throughout the country, and gave them orders to build a ship which should float on the land as well as on the sea. Who acts: brother. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 37

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So he called together all the shipbuilders throughout the country, and gave them orders to build a ship which should float on the land as well as on the sea.

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**Who acts:** brother · **What happens:** call together, give, build, float · **To what, where:** shipbuilders, orders, ship, land

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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:pg5615:19:37
# text = So he called together all the shipbuilders throughout the country, and gave them orders to build a ship which should float on the land as well as on the sea.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	shipbuilders	shipbuilder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	xcomp	_	_
8	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	float	float	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	31	cc	_	_
27	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	fixed	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call together** *speech: assert* | participle | brother | all shipbuilders |  |  | throughout the country | together *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | past | brother *not said here* | orders | shipbuilders *= shipbuilder* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient order=Theme |
| 3 | **build** | to-infinitive | brother *not said here* | a ship |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ship=Product |
| 4 | **float** | should |  |  |  | the land |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Trajectory |

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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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