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title: On the 5th of November, the weather being very hazy, the seamen spie… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On the 5th of November, the weather being very hazy, the seamen spied a rock within 120 yards of the ship; but the wind was so strong that we were driven straight upon it, and immediately split. Who acts: weather, seamen, wind. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I, with its 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 11

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On the 5th of November, the weather being very hazy, the seamen spied a rock within 120 yards of the ship; but the wind was so strong that we were driven straight upon it, and immediately split.

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**Who acts:** weather, seamen, wind · **What happens:** be, spy, drive, split · **To what, where:** 5th, rock, we, wind

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weather, seamen, wind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:43:11
# text = On the 5th of November, the weather being very hazy, the seamen spied a rock within 120 yards of the ship; but the wind was so strong that we were driven straight upon it, and immediately split.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	5th	5th	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	hazy	hazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	seamen	seaman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	spied	spy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	within	within	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	120	120	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	yards	yard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	advcl	_	_
35	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	split	split	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund | the weather |  |  | the 5th of November |  | hazy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **spy** | past | the seamen | a rock |  |  |  | within 120 yards of the ship | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rock=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | the wind |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **drive** | past · passive |  | we |  | wind |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon it=Destination |
| 5 | **split** | infinitive | the weather *not said here* |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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**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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