The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 9

I waded with what haste I could, swimming in the middle about thirty yards, till I felt ground, and thus arrived at the fleet in less than half an hour.

Who acts: I · What happens: wade, swim, feel, arrive · To what, where: middle, ground, fleet

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 waded	nsubj
2	waded	wade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 haste	case
4	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	5 haste	det
5	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waded	obl
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 could	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 haste	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 swimming	punct
9	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 waded	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 middle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 middle	det
12	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 swimming	obl
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 yards	case
14	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 yards	nummod
15	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 middle	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 felt	punct
17	till	till	SCONJ	_	19 felt	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 felt	nsubj
19	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 waded	conj
20	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 felt	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 arrived	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 arrived	cc
23	thus	thus	ADV	_	24 arrived	advmod
24	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 waded	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 fleet	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fleet	det
27	fleet	fleet	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 arrived	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	33 hour	case
29	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	31 half	advmod
30	than	than	ADP	_	29 less	fixed
31	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	33 hour	det:predet
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 hour	det
33	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 arrived	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 waded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wade	past	I				with what haste	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	swim	gerund	I not said here		the middle about thirty yards			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Trajectory
3	feel	past	I	ground				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Theme
4	arrive	past	I not said here		the fleet	hour	thus property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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