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title: Not the bravest sailor in the whole village dared venture so far out… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Not the bravest sailor in the whole village dared venture so far out to sea as Uraschimataro, and many a time the neighbours used to shake their heads and say to his parents, ‘If your son goes on being so rash, one day he will try his luck once too often, and the waves will end by swallowing him up.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 54

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Not the bravest sailor in the whole village dared venture so far out to sea as Uraschimataro, and many a time the neighbours used to shake their heads and say to his parents, ‘If your son goes on being so rash, one day he will try his luck once too often, and the waves will end by swallowing him up.’

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**Who acts:** bravest sailor, neighbours, son, waves · **What happens:** dare, use, shake, say, go, be · **To what, where:** venture, heads, parents, rash, luck, son · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bravest sailor, neighbours, son, waves), 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:pg5615:3:54
# text = Not the bravest sailor in the whole village dared venture so far out to sea as Uraschimataro, and many a time the neighbours used to shake their heads and say to his parents, ‘If your son goes on being so rash, one day he will try his luck once too often, and the waves will end by swallowing him up.’
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	bravest	brave	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	sailor	sailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	dared	dare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	venture	venture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	out	out	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Uraschimataro	Uraschimataro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	44	cop	_	_
43	so	so	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	rash	rash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
46	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	nummod	_	_
47	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl:unmarked	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	conj	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
53	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	50	advmod	_	_
54	too	too	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
55	often	often	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	nsubj	_	_
60	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	61	aux	_	_
61	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
62	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	63	mark	_	_
63	swallowing	swallow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	61	advcl	_	_
64	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	obj	_	_
65	up	up	ADP	RP	_	63	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	61	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	61	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dare** | past | the bravest sailor in the whole village | venture |  |  |  | as Uraschimataro; out *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venture=Recipient |
| 2 | **use** | past | the neighbours |  |  |  | time |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **shake** | to-infinitive | the neighbours *not said here* | Uraschimataro's heads |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the neighbours *not said here* |  | sailor's parents |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to parent=Recipient |
| 5 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | your son |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  | rash |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **try** | future | son | son's luck |  |  | day | often, once *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Eventuality |
| 8 | **end** | future | the waves |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 9 | **swallow up** | gerund | the waves *not said here* | son |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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