The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 23

They saw the ships move forward in a large half-moon, but could not discern me, who, in the middle of the channel, was under water up to my neck.

Who acts: spectacles, ships · What happens: see, move forward, not discern, be · To what, where: large half moon, me, middle, water

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

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 move	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ships	det
4	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 move	nsubj
5	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	forward	forward	ADV	_	5 move	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	12 moon	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 moon	det
9	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 moon	amod
10	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	12 moon	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 half	punct
12	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 move	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 discern	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 discern	cc
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 discern	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 discern	advmod
17	discern	discern	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 move	conj
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 discern	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 who	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 discern	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 middle	punct
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 middle	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 middle	det
24	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 discern	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 channel	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 channel	det
27	channel	channel	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 middle	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 water	punct
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 water	cop
30	under	under	ADP	_	31 water	case
31	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 discern	obl
32	up	up	ADP	_	35 neck	case
33	to	to	ADP	_	32 up	fixed
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 neck	nmod:poss
35	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 water	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 move	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	spectacles = spectacle				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	move forward	present	the ships		a large half moon	forward property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in moon=Trajectory
3	not discern	could	the ships not said here	me	the middle of the channel		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
4	is	past			water	up my neck	tree rules

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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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