The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter V, sentence 1

Three days after my arrival, walking out of curiosity to the northeast coast of the island, I observed at some distance in the sea something that looked like a boat overturned.

Who acts: arrival, I, my · What happens: walk out, observe, look, overturn, arrive · To what, where: curiosity

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arrival, I, my), 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	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 observed	obl:unmarked
3	after	after	ADP	_	5 arrival	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 arrival	nmod:poss
5	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 days	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 walking	punct
7	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 arrival	acl
8	out	out	ADP	_	10 curiosity	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 curiosity	case
10	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walking	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 coast	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 coast	det
13	northeast	northeast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 coast	amod
14	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walking	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 island	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 island	det
17	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 coast	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 days	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 observed	nsubj
20	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 distance	case
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 distance	det
23	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 observed	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 something	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 something	det
26	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 something	compound
27	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 distance	nmod
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 looked	nsubj
29	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 something	acl:relcl
30	like	like	ADP	_	32 boat	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 boat	det
32	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 looked	obl
33	overturned	overturn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 looked	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 observed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	walk out	gerund	my arrival not said here	curiosity		to the northeast coast of the island	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curiosity=Attribute
2	observe	past	I		day	at some distance in something	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	look	past				like a boat	tree rules
4	overturn	participle					tree rules
5	arrive		my				nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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