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title: But immediately another wave came, and the head sank back into the w… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But immediately another wave came, and the head sank back into the water without having said a word. Who acts: wave, head. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 15

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But immediately another wave came, and the head sank back into the water without having said a word.

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**Who acts:** wave, head · **What happens:** come, sink back, have, say · **To what, where:** water, word · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (wave, head), 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:pg640:21:15
# text = But immediately another wave came, and the head sank back into the water without having said a word.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | another wave |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sink back** | past | the head |  |  | the water |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | the head *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | a word |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |

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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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