The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 4

I walked toward the coast, where, lying down behind a hillock, I took out my spy-glass, and viewed the enemy’s fleet at anchor--about fifty men-of-war, and other vessels.

Who acts: I · What happens: walk, lie down, take out, view · To what, where: coast, hillock, spy glass, fleet, anchor

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), 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 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	toward	toward	ADP	_	5 coast	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 coast	det
5	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lying	punct
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 lying	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lying	punct
9	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 walked	advcl
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 lying	advmod
11	behind	behind	ADP	_	13 hillock	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hillock	det
13	hillock	hillock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lying	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 took	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 took	nsubj
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 took	compound:prt
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 glass	nmod:poss
19	spy	spy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 glass	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 spy	punct
21	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 viewed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 viewed	cc
24	viewed	view	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 took	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 enemy	det
26	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fleet	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 enemy	case
28	fleet	fleet	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 viewed	obj
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 anchor	case
30	anchor	anchor	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 viewed	obl
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	34 men	punct
32	about	about	ADV	_	33 fifty	advmod
33	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 men	nummod
34	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 anchor	conj
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 war	punct
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 war	case
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 of	punct
38	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 men	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 vessels	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 vessels	cc
41	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 vessels	amod
42	vessels	vessel	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 took	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past	I		the coast		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward coast=Trajectory
2	lie down	gerund	I not said here		a hillock	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind hillock=Location
3	take out	past	I	my spy glass		other vessels obl	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Theme
4	view	past	I not said here	the enemy's fleet	anchor and fifty men of war		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fleet=Stimulus

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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