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title: The captain then took leave of the royal party, and set sail with a… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The captain then took leave of the royal party, and set sail with a fair wind for England, and after a happy voyage arrived safe in London. Who acts: captain, happy voyage. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 78

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The captain then took leave of the royal party, and set sail with a fair wind for England, and after a happy voyage arrived safe in London.

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**Who acts:** captain, happy voyage · **What happens:** take, arrive · **To what, where:** leave

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captain, happy voyage), 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:pg7439:37:78
# text = The captain then took leave of the royal party, and set sail with a fair wind for England, and after a happy voyage arrived safe in London.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the captain | leave of the royal party |  |  | then | set sail with a fair wind for England *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | a happy voyage |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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