--- title: The chief jumped straight into the canoe, and seizing the paddles pu… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The chief jumped straight into the canoe, and seizing the paddles pushed off from the shore, when to his joy and wonder he saw following him in another canoe exactly like his own the maiden for whose sake he had made this long journey. Who acts: chief, seizing, thought. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief, seizing, thought), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg640:28:32 # text = The chief jumped straight into the canoe, and seizing the paddles pushed off from the shore, when to his joy and wonder he saw following him in another canoe exactly like his own the maiden for whose sake he had made this long journey. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 chief chief NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 straight straight ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 5 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 canoe canoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 seizing seize VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 csubj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 paddles paddle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 pushed push VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 off off ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 wonder wonder NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 27 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 xcomp _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 31 det _ _ 31 canoe canoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 33 like like ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 advcl _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 maiden maiden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 conj _ _ 38 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 sake sake NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 42 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 40 acl:relcl _ _ 44 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 46 det _ _ 45 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **jump** | past | the chief | | | the canoe | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into canoe=Destination | | 2 | **seize** | gerund | | the paddles | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paddle=Theme | | 3 | **push off** | past | seizing | | | | | from the shore | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from shore=Co-Patient | | 4 | **see** | past | thought | | | | | to thought's joy and wonder | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **follow** | gerund | thought *not said here* | thought | | another canoe | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in canoe=Trajectory | | 6 | **make** | past · perfect | thought | this long journey | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Product | | 7 | **joy** | | thought | | | | | | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/28/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/28/33/) - ↑ back to [In the Land of Souls (21)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/28/)