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title: And sure enough, when the forty casks of wine containing forty gallo… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And sure enough, when the forty casks of wine containing forty gallons each were brought alongside of the ship, they disappeared down the thirsty comrade’s throat in no time; and when they were empty he remarked: Who acts: forty casks, forty gallons, casks, comrade. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy B
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 116

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And sure enough, when the forty casks of wine containing forty gallons each were brought alongside of the ship, they disappeared down the thirsty comrade’s throat in no time; and when they were empty he remarked:

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**Who acts:** forty casks, forty gallons, casks, comrade · **What happens:** contain, bring, disappear, be, remark · **To what, where:** forty gallons, each

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forty casks, forty gallons, casks, comrade), 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:pg640:35:116
# text = And sure enough, when the forty casks of wine containing forty gallons each were brought alongside of the ship, they disappeared down the thirsty comrade’s throat in no time; and when they were empty he remarked:
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	casks	cask	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
12	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	gallons	gallon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	alongside	alongside	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
24	down	down	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	comrade	comrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	det	_	_
32	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	remarked	remark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | gerund | the forty casks of wine | forty gallons |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot gallon=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | past · passive | forty gallons *not said here* | each |  |  |  | alongside the ship | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **disappear** | past | casks *= cask* |  |  |  | time | down the thirsty comrade's throat | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | casks *= cask* |  |  |  |  | empty *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **remark** *speech: assert* | past | comrade |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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