--- title: Now when he saw the first ship lying at anchor his heart beat high,… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Now when he saw the first ship lying at anchor his heart beat high, and he said to himself, ‘My brother cannot surely be far off,’ and he ordered a boat and was put on shore. Who acts: man, first ship, heart. 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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 (man, first ship, heart), 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:pg5615:24:61 # text = Now when he saw the first ship lying at anchor his heart beat high, and he said to himself, ‘My brother cannot surely be far off,’ and he ordered a boat and was put on shore. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 7 amod _ _ 7 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 anchor anchor NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 beat beat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 14 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 27 surely surely ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 cop _ _ 29 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 30 advmod _ _ 30 off off ADV RB _ 25 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 conj _ _ 41 on on ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | man | the first ship | | | now | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ship=Stimulus | | 2 | **lie** | gerund | the first ship *not said here* | | | anchor | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at anchor=Location | | 3 | **beat** | present | man's heart | anchor *not said here* | | | | high *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location anchor=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man | | man | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | | 5 | **not** **is** | infinitive | | | | | | far, off, surely *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **order** | past | man | a boat | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | | 7 | **put** | past · passive | man *not said here* | | | shore | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: on shore=Destination | 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 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/24/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/24/62/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/24/)