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title: By this time he was somewhat alarmed, and did his best to put the sh… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: By this time he was somewhat alarmed, and did his best to put the ship about and get back to the river, but wind and tide were too strong for him, and he began to think of the number of times, from his childhood up, that he had been warned not to meddle with water. Who acts: wind, Prince. A sentence
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 19

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By this time he was somewhat alarmed, and did his best to put the ship about and get back to the river, but wind and tide were too strong for him, and he began to think of the number of times, from his childhood up, that he had been warned not to meddle with water.

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**Who acts:** wind, Prince · **What happens:** alarm, do, put, get back, be, begin · **To what, where:** Prince, best, ship, childhood · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (wind, 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:pg7277:37:19
# text = By this time he was somewhat alarmed, and did his best to put the ship about and get back to the river, but wind and tide were too strong for him, and he began to think of the number of times, from his childhood up, that he had been warned not to meddle with water.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	alarmed	alarm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
26	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	too	too	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	from	from	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	childhood	childhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
49	up	up	ADP	RP	_	48	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
51	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
52	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj:pass	_	_
53	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
54	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	55	aux:pass	_	_
55	warned	warn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	conj	_	_
56	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	58	advmod	_	_
57	to	to	PART	TO	_	58	mark	_	_
58	meddle	meddle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	ccomp	_	_
59	with	with	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **alarm** | past · passive |  | Prince |  |  | time | somewhat *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **do** | past |  | Prince's best |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality |
| 3 | **put** | to-infinitive |  | the ship |  |  |  | about *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ship=Goal |
| 4 | **get back** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | past | wind and tide |  |  |  |  | for Prince; strong *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **begin** | past | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* |  |  | Prince's childhood |  | of the number of times | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **warn** *speech: warn* | past · perfect · passive |  | Prince |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 9 | **not** **meddle** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with water | 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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