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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 32

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So the sailors set him and Mousta on shore, and then went back sorrowfully to their ship, while the Prince and his attendant walked off in what looked to them the most promising direction.

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**Who acts:** sailors, Prince · **What happens:** set, go back, walk off, look, promise · **To what, where:** Prince, shore, promising direction, sailors

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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 (sailors, Prince), 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:pg7277:15:32
# text = So the sailors set him and Mousta on shore, and then went back sorrowfully to their ship, while the Prince and his attendant walked off in what looked to them the most promising direction.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Mousta	Mousta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	sorrowfully	sorrowfully	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	attendant	attendant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
27	off	off	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
30	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	35	advmod	_	_
35	promising	promise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	amod	_	_
36	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past | the sailors | Prince |  | shore |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on shore=Destination |
| 2 | **go back** | past |  |  |  |  | then | to sailors's ship *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to ship=Result |
| 3 | **walk off** | past | the Prince and Prince's attendant |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **look** | past |  | the promising direction | sailors *= sailor* |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=Theme |
| 5 | **promise** *speech: promise* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=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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