The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter V, sentence 19

I hailed her, but could get no answer; yet I found I gained upon her, for the wind slackened; and in half an hour she spied me, and discharged a gun.

Who acts: I, wind · What happens: hail, get, find, gain, slacken, spy · To what, where: vessel, answer, me, gun · Speech: someone speaks here

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, wind), 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 hailed	nsubj
2	hailed	hail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hailed	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 get	cc
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hailed	conj
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 answer	det
9	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct
11	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	13 found	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 found	nsubj
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hailed	parataxis
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 gained	nsubj
15	gained	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 found	ccomp
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gained	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 slackened	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 slackened	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wind	det
21	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 slackened	nsubj
22	slackened	slacken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 gained	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 spied	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 spied	cc
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 hour	case
26	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	28 hour	det:predet
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 hour	det
28	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 spied	obl
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 spied	nsubj
30	spied	spy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hailed	conj
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 spied	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 discharged	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 discharged	cc
34	discharged	discharge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 spied	advcl
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 gun	det
36	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 discharged	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hailed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hail	past	I	vessel			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	get	could	I not said here	no answer			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus
3	find	past	I				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	gain	past	I			upon vessel	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	slacken	past	the wind				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	spy	past	wind	me	hour		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
7	discharge	participle	wind not said here	a gun			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=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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