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title: Without a word or a good-bye off they flew over the deep blue sea wh… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Without a word or a good-bye off they flew over the deep blue sea which was tossing and moaning. Who acts: words, deep blue sea. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 39

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Without a word or a good-bye off they flew over the deep blue sea which was tossing and moaning.

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**Who acts:** words, deep blue sea · **What happens:** fly, toss, moan · **To what, where:** good bye, deep blue sea

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, deep blue sea), 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:pg7439:35:39
# text = Without a word or a good-bye off they flew over the deep blue sea which was tossing and moaning.
1	Without	without	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	bye	bye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	tossing	toss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	moaning	moan	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | words *= word* | a good bye *not said here* |  | the deep blue sea |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent bye=Theme over sea=Location |
| 2 | **toss** | past · progressive | the deep blue sea |  |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **moan** | gerund | the deep blue sea *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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