--- title: When he reached the boat he found the dove perched on one of the mas… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When he reached the boat he found the dove perched on one of the masts, and at a signal from her he put to sea; the wind was behind them and they soon lost sight of land. Who acts: man, wind, doves. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, with it --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/42/35/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Prince Who Wanted to See the World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/42/) / 35 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 35 When he reached the boat he found the dove perched on one of the masts, and at a signal from her he put to sea; the wind was behind them and they soon lost sight of land. **Who acts:** man, wind, doves · **What happens:** reach, find, perch, put, be, lose · **To what, where:** boat, dove, signal, sight, land This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, wind, doves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:42:35 # text = When he reached the boat he found the dove perched on one of the masts, and at a signal from her he put to sea; the wind was behind them and they soon lost sight of land. 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 dove dove NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 perched perch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 masts mast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 signal signal NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nmod _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 behind behind ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 36 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 37 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reach** | past | man | the boat | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | | 2 | **find** | past | man | the dove | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dove=Topic | | 3 | **perch** | participle | | the dove *not said here* | | | | on one of the masts | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on one=Location | | 4 | **put** | past | man | | | a signal from daughter | | to sea | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at signal=Destination | | 5 | **is** | past | the wind | | | | | behind doves *= dove* | tree rules | | 6 | **lose** | past | doves *= dove* | sight of land | | | | soon *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality | | 7 | **sight** | | | land | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/42/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/42/36/) - ↑ back to [The Prince Who Wanted to See the World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/42/)