The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 3

I consulted the most experienced seamen on the depth of the channel, and they told me that in the middle, at high water, it was seventy glumguffs (about six feet of European measure).

Who acts: I, seamen, channel · What happens: consult, tell, be · To what, where: experienced seamen, depth, seventy glumguffs, me, high water · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, seamen, channel), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 consulted	nsubj
2	consulted	consult	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 seamen	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 experienced	advmod
5	experienced	experienced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 seamen	amod
6	seamen	seaman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 consulted	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 depth	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 depth	det
9	depth	depth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 consulted	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 channel	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 channel	det
12	channel	channel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 depth	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	nsubj
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 consulted	conj
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 middle	mark
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 middle	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 middle	det
21	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 water	punct
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 water	case
24	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 water	amod
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 glumguffs	punct
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 glumguffs	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 glumguffs	cop
29	seventy	seventy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 glumguffs	amod
30	glumguffs	glumguff	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 told	iobj
31	(	(	PUNCT	_	34 feet	punct
32	about	about	ADV	_	33 six	advmod
33	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 feet	nummod
34	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 glumguffs	appos
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 measure	case
36	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 measure	amod
37	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 feet	nmod
38	)	)	PUNCT	_	34 feet	punct
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 consulted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	consult	past	I	the experienced seamen		the depth of the channel	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seaman=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	seamen = seaman	seventy glumguffs	me	high water	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient glumguff=Topic
3	is a	past	channel	seventy glumguffs			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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