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title: But one day as he was making for a little bay between some rocks, th… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 63

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But one day as he was making for a little bay between some rocks, there arose a fierce whirlwind, which shattered his boat to pieces, and she was sucked under by the waves.

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**Who acts:** couple, fierce whirlwind, waves · **What happens:** make, arise, shatter, suck · **To what, where:** one day, fierce whirlwind, boat, house

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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 (couple, fierce whirlwind, 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:pg5615:3:63
# text = But one day as he was making for a little bay between some rocks, there arose a fierce whirlwind, which shattered his boat to pieces, and she was sucked under by the waves.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bay	bay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	between	between	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	shattered	shatter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	sucked	suck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
33	under	under	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · progressive | couple | one day *not said here* |  |  |  | for a little bay between some rocks | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent day=Product for bay=Asset |
| 2 | **arise** | past |  | a fierce whirlwind |  | there | day |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whirlwind=Theme |
| 3 | **shatter** | past | a fierce whirlwind | couple's boat |  |  |  | to pieces *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent boat=Patient to piece=Result |
| 4 | **suck** | past · passive | the waves | house |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent subject=Source |

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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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