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title: He had scarcely lost sight of the land when a violent storm arose, a… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He had scarcely lost sight of the land when a violent storm arose, and after several hours of beating about, the vessel was driven on to some rocks, on which it dashed itself to bits. Who acts: sight, violent storm, vessel. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 90

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He had scarcely lost sight of the land when a violent storm arose, and after several hours of beating about, the vessel was driven on to some rocks, on which it dashed itself to bits.

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**Who acts:** sight, violent storm, vessel · **What happens:** lose, arise, beat about, drive, dash, sight · **To what, where:** sight, vessel, rocks, land

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (sight, violent storm, vessel), 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:pg640:16:90
# text = He had scarcely lost sight of the land when a violent storm arose, and after several hours of beating about, the vessel was driven on to some rocks, on which it dashed itself to bits.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
19	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	beating	beat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	ccomp	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	parataxis	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	obl	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	dashed	dash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
36	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	35	obj	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past · perfect | sight | sight of the land |  |  |  | scarcely *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality |
| 2 | **arise** | past | a violent storm |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **beat about** | gerund | a violent storm *not said here* |  |  |  | hour | about *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **drive** | past · passive |  | the vessel |  | some rocks |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on rock=Destination |
| 5 | **dash** | past | vessel | vessel |  |  |  | to bits *result* | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP ADJP PP.result»: agent=Instrument itself=Patient to bit=Result |
| 6 | **sight** |  |  | the land |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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