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title: So he sprang into the little boat and rowed away without finding it… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So he sprang into the little boat and rowed away without finding it at all hard work, for the boat was made all of white paper and was as light as a rose leaf. Who acts: Prince. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, with its dependency t
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 15

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So he sprang into the little boat and rowed away without finding it at all hard work, for the boat was made all of white paper and was as light as a rose leaf.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** spring, row away, find, make, be · **To what, where:** little boat, boat, hard work

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (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:pg7277:37:15
# text = So he sprang into the little boat and rowed away without finding it at all hard work, for the boat was made all of white paper and was as light as a rose leaf.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	rowed	row	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
16	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	as	as	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring** | past | Prince |  |  | the little boat |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into boat=Destination |
| 2 | **row away** | past | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **find** | gerund | Prince *not said here* | boat |  | all hard work |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at work=Asset |
| 4 | **make** | past · passive |  | the boat |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary all=Product |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as a rose leaf; light *property* | tree rules |

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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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