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title: He got down to the shore without meeting anyone, and there he got in… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He got down to the shore without meeting anyone, and there he got into a boat, and pushed off from land. Who acts: remainder. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 75

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He got down to the shore without meeting anyone, and there he got into a boat, and pushed off from land.

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**Who acts:** remainder · **What happens:** get down, meet, get, push off · **To what, where:** anyone, boat

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (remainder), 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:pg5615:7:75
# text = He got down to the shore without meeting anyone, and there he got into a boat, and pushed off from land.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	meeting	meet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
21	off	off	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get down** | past | remainder |  |  |  |  | to the shore *result*; down *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to shore=Result |
| 2 | **meet** | gerund | remainder *not said here* | anyone |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **get** | past | remainder |  |  | a boat; there |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into boat=Destination |
| 4 | **push off** | participle | remainder *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from land | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from land=Co-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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