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title: Then with mocking words they hunted him to the shore, and into the s… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then with mocking words they hunted him to the shore, and into the sea, which he was only too thankful to reach alive. Who acts: words, sea. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 39

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Then with mocking words they hunted him to the shore, and into the sea, which he was only too thankful to reach alive.

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**Who acts:** words, sea · **What happens:** mock, hunt, be, reach · **To what, where:** turtle

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, sea), 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:pg641:32:39
# text = Then with mocking words they hunted him to the shore, and into the sea, which he was only too thankful to reach alive.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	mocking	mock	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	too	too	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	thankful	thankful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
25	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mock** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hunt** | past | words *= word* | turtle |  |  | then | with mocking words; to the shore | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the sea |  |  |  |  | thankful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **reach** | to-infinitive | the sea *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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