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title: And now the twelve ships which the whale had thrown up came sailing… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And now the twelve ships which the whale had thrown up came sailing along and anchored close by. Who acts: whale, twelve ships. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 151

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And now the twelve ships which the whale had thrown up came sailing along and anchored close by.

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**Who acts:** whale, twelve ships · **What happens:** throw up, come, sail, anchor · **To what, where:** twelve ships

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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 (whale, twelve ships), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg641:336`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg641:4:151
# text = And now the twelve ships which the whale had thrown up came sailing along and anchored close by.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	xcomp	_	_
14	along	along	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	anchored	anchor	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	close	close	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	by	by	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw up** | past · perfect | the whale | the twelve ships |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | the twelve ships |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sail** | gerund | the twelve ships *not said here* |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **anchor** | past | the twelve ships *not said here* |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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