--- title: Then they joyfully left the desert island, and after a long and pros… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then they joyfully left the desert island, and after a long and prosperous voyage over calm seas they at length came in sight of land, and resolved to go on shore, not only to take in a fresh stock of water and provisions, but also to find out, if possible, where they were and in what direction to p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/15/1/) [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 Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [Heart of Ice, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/15/) / 1 # The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 1 Then they joyfully left the desert island, and after a long and prosperous voyage over calm seas they at length came in sight of land, and resolved to go on shore, not only to take in a fresh stock of water and provisions, but also to find out, if possible, where they were and in what direction to proceed. **Who acts:** they, seas · **What happens:** leave, come, resolve, go, not take in, find out · **To what, where:** desert island, calm seas, sight, shore, fresh stock, direction This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they, seas), 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:pg7277:15:1 # text = Then they joyfully left the desert island, and after a long and prosperous voyage over calm seas they at length came in sight of land, and resolved to go on shore, not only to take in a fresh stock of water and provisions, but also to find out, if possible, where they were and in what direction to proceed. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 joyfully joyfully ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 10 after after ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 12 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 prosperous prosperous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 15 voyage voyage NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 16 over over ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 seas sea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 resolved resolve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 36 only only ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 39 in in ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 stock stock NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 provisions provision NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 48 but but CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 49 also also ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ _ 50 to to PART TO _ 51 mark _ _ 51 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 52 out out ADP RP _ 51 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 54 if if SCONJ IN _ 55 mark _ _ 55 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 57 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 63 advmod _ _ 58 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 63 nsubj _ _ 59 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 63 cop _ _ 60 and and CCONJ CC _ 63 cc _ _ 61 in in ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 62 what what DET WDT PronType=Int 63 det _ _ 63 direction direction NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 parataxis _ _ 64 to to PART TO _ 65 mark _ _ 65 proceed proceed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 63 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 66 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | past | they | the desert island | | | after a long voyage over calm seas; then | joyfully *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Theme | | 2 | **come** | past | seas *= sea* | calm seas *not said here* | | sight of land | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sea=Theme | | 3 | **resolve** | participle | they *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | to-infinitive | they *not said here* | | | shore | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on shore=Location | | 5 | **not** **take in** | to-infinitive | they *not said here* | a fresh stock of water and provisions | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stock=Theme | | 6 | **find out** | to-infinitive | they *not said here* | | | | | possible *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | past | seas *= sea* | | | what direction | | | tree rules | | 8 | **proceed** | to-infinitive | they *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **sight** | | | land | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 10 | **stock** | | | water and provisions | | | | | nom stock «possession 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 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. - ← previous: [Heart of Ice, part 1, 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/14/71/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/15/2/) - ↑ back to [Heart of Ice, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/15/)