--- title: For my part, I swam as fortune directed me, and was pushed forward b… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: For my part, I swam as fortune directed me, and was pushed forward by wind and tide; but when I was able to struggle no longer I found myself within my depth. Who acts: I, fortune, wind. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/43/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [Chapter I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/43/) / 15 # The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 15 For my part, I swam as fortune directed me, and was pushed forward by wind and tide; but when I was able to struggle no longer I found myself within my depth. **Who acts:** I, fortune, wind · **What happens:** swim, direct, push forward, be, struggle, find · **To what, where:** me, myself 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 (I, fortune, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg503:43:15 # text = For my part, I swam as fortune directed me, and was pushed forward by wind and tide; but when I was able to struggle no longer I found myself within my depth. 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 swam swim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 as as SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 directed direct VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 10 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 pushed push VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 15 forward forward ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 tide tide NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 struggle struggle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 no no ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 31 advmod _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 32 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 31 obj _ _ 33 within within ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 depth depth NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swim** | past | I | | | | | for my part | tree rules | | 2 | **direct** | past | fortune | me | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 3 | **push forward** | past · passive | wind and tide | | | | | forward *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | past | I | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **struggle** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **find** | past | I | myself | | | | within my depth; long *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/43/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/43/16/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/43/)