The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter V, sentence 18
When I had made twenty-four leagues, by my reckoning, from the island of Blefuscu, I saw a sail steering to the northeast.
Who acts: I, sail, my · What happens: make, see, steer, reckon · To what, where: four leagues, island, sail, northeast
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 (I, sail, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 made | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 saw | advcl |
| 5 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 four | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 twenty | punct |
| 7 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 leagues | nummod |
| 8 | leagues | league | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 reckoning | punct |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 reckoning | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 reckoning | nmod:poss |
| 12 | reckoning | reckoning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 island | punct |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 island | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 island | det |
| 16 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Blefuscu | case |
| 18 | Blefuscu | Blefuscu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 island | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 saw | nsubj |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 sail | det |
| 23 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saw | obj |
| 24 | steering | steer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 sail | acl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 northeast | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 northeast | det |
| 27 | northeast | northeast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 steering | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect | I | four leagues | the island of Blefuscu | by my reckoning | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent league=Product from island=Material | ||
| 2 | see | past | I | a sail | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sail=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | steer | gerund | a sail not said here | the northeast | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to northeast=Destination | ||||
| 4 | reckon | my | nom reckoning «cognition transitive»: 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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