--- title: And so the mighty drinker was added to the company; and the ship fle… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And so the mighty drinker was added to the company; and the ship flew farther, and even farther, till again the Simpleton looked out, and this time he saw a man dragging a bundle of wood, walking through the forest beneath them. Who acts: ship, Simpleton, man. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» b --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/35/61/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Flying Ship(24)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/35/) / 61 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 61 And so the mighty drinker was added to the company; and the ship flew farther, and even farther, till again the Simpleton looked out, and this time he saw a man dragging a bundle of wood, walking through the forest beneath them. **Who acts:** ship, Simpleton, man · **What happens:** add, fly, look out, see, drag, walk · **To what, where:** mighty drinker, man, bundle, forest 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 (ship, Simpleton, man), 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:pg640:35:61 # text = And so the mighty drinker was added to the company; and the ship flew farther, and even farther, till again the Simpleton looked out, and this time he saw a man dragging a bundle of wood, walking through the forest beneath them. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 so so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 drinker drinker NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 added add VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 16 farther far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 even even ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 farther far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 till till SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 23 again again ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Simpleton Simpleton PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 27 out out ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 det _ _ 31 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl:unmarked _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 dragging drag VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 acl _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 bundle bundle NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 conj _ _ 43 through through ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 46 beneath beneath ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | past · passive | | the mighty drinker | | | | to the company | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to company=Co-Patient | | 2 | **fly** | past | the ship | | | | | far *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **look out** | past | the Simpleton | | | | again | | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **see** | past | Simpleton | a man | | | time | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | | 5 | **drag** | gerund | a man *not said here* | a bundle of wood | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme | | 6 | **walk** | gerund | Simpleton *not said here* | | | the forest | | beneath beast | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory | 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 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/35/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/35/62/) - ↑ back to [The Flying Ship(24)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/35/)