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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 43

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After this the Giant accompanied him down to the sea, where he saw a stone boat which was just big enough to hold the two of them and the Dog.

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**Who acts:** Giant, Dog, stone boat · **What happens:** accompany down, see, be, hold · **To what, where:** Dog, sea, stone boat, two

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Giant, Dog, stone boat), 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:pg640:42:43
# text = After this the Giant accompanied him down to the sea, where he saw a stone boat which was just big enough to hold the two of them and the Dog.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	_
5	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	just	just	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accompany down** | past | the Giant | Dog |  | the sea | after this |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to sea=Destination |
| 2 | **see** | past | Dog | a stone boat |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boat=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | a stone boat |  |  |  |  | big, enough *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hold** | to-infinitive | a stone boat *not said here* | the two of signs |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Theme |

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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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