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title: But no boat was there, and at last, tired and hungry, he sat down to… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But no boat was there, and at last, tired and hungry, he sat down to rest on the steps of a fisherman’s hut. Who acts: boat, horse. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 99

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But no boat was there, and at last, tired and hungry, he sat down to rest on the steps of a fisherman’s hut.

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**Who acts:** boat, horse · **What happens:** be, sit down, rest, step · **To what, where:** hut

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boat, horse), 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:pg7277:22:99
# text = But no boat was there, and at last, tired and hungry, he sat down to rest on the steps of a fisherman’s hut.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | no boat |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit down** | past | horse |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rest** | to-infinitive | horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the steps of a fisherman's hut | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on step=Location |
| 4 | **step** |  |  | a fisherman's hut |  |  |  |  | nom step «act transitive»: of=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 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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