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title: The ship travelled on again, and some miles further on they saw a ma… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The ship travelled on again, and some miles further on they saw a man drinking out of a stream till he had nearly drunk it dry. Who acts: ship, miles, man. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 72

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The ship travelled on again, and some miles further on they saw a man drinking out of a stream till he had nearly drunk it dry.

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**Who acts:** ship, miles, man · **What happens:** travel on, see, drink out, drink · **To what, where:** man, stream

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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 (ship, miles, man), 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:pg5615:19:72
# text = The ship travelled on again, and some miles further on they saw a man drinking out of a stream till he had nearly drunk it dry.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
10	further	further	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	drunk	drink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	ccomp	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel on** | past | the ship |  |  |  | again |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | some miles | a man |  |  |  | further *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **drink out** | gerund | a man *not said here* | a stream |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stream=Patient |
| 4 | **drink** | past · perfect · passive |  | man |  |  |  | dry, nearly *property* | tree rules |

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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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