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title: I reached the shore at last, about eight o’clock in the evening, and… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I reached the shore at last, about eight o’clock in the evening, and advanced nearly half a mile inland, but could not discover any sign of inhabitants. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 17

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I reached the shore at last, about eight o’clock in the evening, and advanced nearly half a mile inland, but could not discover any sign of inhabitants.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** reach, advance, not discover, sign · **To what, where:** shore, last, sign, inhabitants

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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 (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg503:3301`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:43:17
# text = I reached the shore at last, about eight o’clock in the evening, and advanced nearly half a mile inland, but could not discover any sign of inhabitants.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	o’clock	o'clock	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	advanced	advance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	20	det:predet	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	inland	inland	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	discover	discover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
27	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | I | the shore |  | last |  | eight in the evening *obl:unmarked* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent shore=Theme at last=Asset |
| 2 | **advance** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | inland *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **discover** | could | I *not said here* | any sign of inhabitants |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Topic |
| 4 | **sign** |  |  | inhabitants |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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