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title: I waded with what haste I could, swimming in the middle about thirty… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I waded with what haste I could, swimming in the middle about thirty yards, till I felt ground, and thus arrived at the fleet in less than half an hour. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 9

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I waded with what haste I could, swimming in the middle about thirty yards, till I felt ground, and thus arrived at the fleet in less than half an hour.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** wade, swim, feel, arrive · **To what, where:** middle, ground, fleet

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV. 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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**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:pg503:46:9
# text = I waded with what haste I could, swimming in the middle about thirty yards, till I felt ground, and thus arrived at the fleet in less than half an hour.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	waded	wade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	5	det	_	_
5	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	yards	yard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	fleet	fleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
29	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	31	advmod	_	_
30	than	than	ADP	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	33	det:predet	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wade** | past | I |  |  |  |  | with what haste | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **swim** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  | the middle about thirty yards |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Trajectory |
| 3 | **feel** | past | I | ground |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Theme |
| 4 | **arrive** | past | I *not said here* |  |  | the fleet | hour | thus *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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