The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 17

I reached the shore at last, about eight o’clock in the evening, and advanced nearly half a mile inland, but could not discover any sign of inhabitants.

Who acts: I · What happens: reach, advance, not discover, sign · To what, where: shore, last, sign, inhabitants

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg503:3301): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 reached	nsubj
2	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shore	det
4	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reached	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 last	case
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 reached	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 eight	punct
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 eight	advmod
9	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 reached	obl:unmarked
10	o’clock	o'clock	ADV	_	9 eight	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 evening	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 evening	det
13	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eight	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 advanced	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 advanced	cc
16	advanced	advance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reached	conj
17	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	18 half	advmod
18	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	20 mile	det:predet
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 mile	det
20	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 inland	obl:unmarked
21	inland	inland	ADV	_	16 advanced	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 discover	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 discover	cc
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 discover	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 discover	advmod
26	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 reached	conj
27	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 sign	det
28	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 discover	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 inhabitants	case
30	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sign	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	I	the shore	last	eight in the evening obl:unmarked	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent shore=Theme at last=Asset
2	advance	past	I not said here			inland property	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	not discover	could	I not said here	any sign of inhabitants			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Topic
4	sign			inhabitants			nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient

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.

Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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