The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 8

Having thus fixed fifty hooks to as many cables, I went back to the coast, and taking off my coat, shoes, and stockings, walked into the sea in my leather jacket about half an hour before high water.

Who acts: I, stockings · What happens: have, fix, go back, take off, walk · To what, where: fifty hooks, coat, sea

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, stockings), 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	Having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 went	advcl
2	thus	thus	ADV	_	3 fixed	advmod
3	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Having	xcomp
4	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hooks	nummod
5	hooks	hook	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fixed	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 cables	case
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 many	advmod
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cables	amod
9	cables	cable	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fixed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Having	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 coast	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 coast	det
16	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 taking	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 taking	cc
19	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 went	advcl
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 taking	compound:prt
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 coat	nmod:poss
22	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 taking	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 shoes	punct
24	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 coat	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 walked	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 walked	cc
27	stockings	stocking	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 walked	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stockings	punct
29	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	conj
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 sea	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sea	det
32	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 walked	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 jacket	case
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 jacket	nmod:poss
35	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 jacket	compound
36	jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 walked	obl
37	about	about	ADV	_	38 half	advmod
38	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	40 hour	det:predet
39	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 hour	det
40	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 walked	obl:unmarked
41	before	before	ADP	_	43 water	case
42	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 water	amod
43	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 walked	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	gerund	I not said here				tree rules
2	fix	participle	I not said here	fifty hooks		to many cables; thus property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent hook=Patient to cable=Co-Patient
3	go back	past	I			to the coast result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to coast=Result
4	take off	gerund	I not said here	my coat and shoes			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme
5	walk	past	stockings		before high water; hour	into the sea result; in my leather jacket	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into sea=Result

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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