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title: If some one gets into the boat to be ferried across, the old man has… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If some one gets into the boat to be ferried across, the old man has only to push the boat off, and go his way without looking back. Who acts: one, old man, you. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 132

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If some one gets into the boat to be ferried across, the old man has only to push the boat off, and go his way without looking back.

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**Who acts:** one, old man, you · **What happens:** get, ferry, have, push off, go, look back · **To what, where:** boat, way

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, old man, you), 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:pg641:4:132
# text = If some one gets into the boat to be ferried across, the old man has only to push the boat off, and go his way without looking back.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	ferried	ferry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	across	across	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	off	off	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
30	back	back	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | some one |  |  | the boat |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into boat=Destination |
| 2 | **ferry** | to-infinitive · passive | some one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | across *property* | vn vehicle-51.4.1 «NP.theme V» |
| 3 | **have** | present | the old man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **push off** | to-infinitive | the old man *not said here* | the boat |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* | man's way |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **look back** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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