--- title: And so he too joined them; and away the ship flew on, and on, and on… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And so he too joined them; and away the ship flew on, and on, and on, and once more the Simpleton looked out, and this time he saw a man carrying straw upon his back. Who acts: sort, ship, Simpleton, man. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24), with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/35/67/) [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/) / 67 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 67 And so he too joined them; and away the ship flew on, and on, and on, and once more the Simpleton looked out, and this time he saw a man carrying straw upon his back. **Who acts:** sort, ship, Simpleton, man · **What happens:** join, fly, look out, see, carry · **To what, where:** lips, man, straw 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 (sort, 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:pg640:35:67 # text = And so he too joined them; and away the ship flew on, and on, and on, and once more the Simpleton looked out, and this time he saw a man carrying straw upon his back. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 too too ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 joined join VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 away away ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 13 on on ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 on on ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 on on ADV RB _ 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 23 advmod _ _ 23 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 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 12 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 12 conj _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 carrying carry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 acl _ _ 37 straw straw NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 38 upon upon ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **join** | past | sort | lips *= lip* | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 2 | **fly** | past | the ship | | | | | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **look out** | past | the Simpleton | | | | | | 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 | **carry** | gerund | a man *not said here* | straw | | | | upon Simpleton's back | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent straw=Theme | 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 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/35/66/) - next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/35/68/) - ↑ back to [The Flying Ship(24)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/35/)