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title: Here he found a boat sailing for the coast which he desired to reach… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Here he found a boat sailing for the coast which he desired to reach, and, having just enough money to pay his passage, he went on board and they started. Who acts: Japan, boat, coast, feet. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 60

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Here he found a boat sailing for the coast which he desired to reach, and, having just enough money to pay his passage, he went on board and they started.

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**Who acts:** Japan, boat, coast, feet · **What happens:** find, sail, desire, reach, have, pay · **To what, where:** boat, enough money, passage, board

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Japan, boat, coast, feet), 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:pg7277:14:60
# text = Here he found a boat sailing for the coast which he desired to reach, and, having just enough money to pay his passage, he went on board and they started.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
19	just	just	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Japan | a boat |  | here |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Topic |
| 2 | **sail** | gerund | a boat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the coast | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **desire** | past | the coast |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **reach** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the coast *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **have** | gerund |  | enough money |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
| 6 | **pay** | to-infinitive |  | Japan's passage |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passage=Asset |
| 7 | **go** | past | Japan |  |  | board |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on board=Location |
| 8 | **start** | past | feet *= foot* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 9 | **pass** |  | Japan |  |  |  |  |  | nom passage «act intransitive»: poss=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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