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title: Then he went and wakened the sailors, and bade them hoist the sails,… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he went and wakened the sailors, and bade them hoist the sails, for a breeze had sprung up and was blowing straight towards the harbour. Who acts: Sigurd. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 27

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Then he went and wakened the sailors, and bade them hoist the sails, for a breeze had sprung up and was blowing straight towards the harbour.

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**Who acts:** Sigurd · **What happens:** go, waken, hoist, spring up, blow · **To what, where:** sailors, bade, breeze

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sigurd), 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:pg640:47:27
# text = Then he went and wakened the sailors, and bade them hoist the sails, for a breeze had sprung up and was blowing straight towards the harbour.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	wakened	waken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	hoist	hoist	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	sprung	spring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	conj	_	_
25	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Sigurd |  |  |  | then |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **waken** | past | Sigurd *not said here* | the sailors |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sailor=Patient |
| 3 | **hoist** | present |  | bade |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sail=Theme |
| 4 | **spring up** | past · perfect · passive |  | a breeze |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **blow** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | towards the harbour | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent towards harbour=Recipient |

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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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