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title: But he then felt something lay hold of the boat, and drag it straigh… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But he then felt something lay hold of the boat, and drag it straight in to shore, for all that he sat and struggled with the oars. 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 80

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But he then felt something lay hold of the boat, and drag it straight in to shore, for all that he sat and struggled with the oars.

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**Who acts:** remainder · **What happens:** feel, drag, sit, struggle, hold · **To what, where:** something, boat, shore

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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:pg5615:7:80
# text = But he then felt something lay hold of the boat, and drag it straight in to shore, for all that he sat and struggled with the oars.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
6	lay	lay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	drag	drag	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	struggled	struggle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	oars	oar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | remainder | something |  |  | then |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
| 2 | **drag** | infinitive | remainder *not said here* | boat |  | shore |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to shore=Destination |
| 3 | **sit** | past | remainder |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **struggle** | past | remainder *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the oars | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with oar=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **hold** |  |  | the boat |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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