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title: Three days after my arrival, walking out of curiosity to the northea… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Three days after my arrival, walking out of curiosity to the northeast coast of the island, I observed at some distance in the sea something that looked like a boat overturned. Who acts: arrival, I, my. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter V, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter V, sentence 1

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Three days after my arrival, walking out of curiosity to the northeast coast of the island, I observed at some distance in the sea something that looked like a boat overturned.

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**Who acts:** arrival, I, my · **What happens:** walk out, observe, look, overturn, arrive · **To what, where:** curiosity

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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 (arrival, I, my), 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:pg503:47:1
# text = Three days after my arrival, walking out of curiosity to the northeast coast of the island, I observed at some distance in the sea something that looked like a boat overturned.
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	northeast	northeast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	observed	observe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	nmod	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	like	like	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	overturned	overturn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk out** | gerund | my arrival *not said here* | curiosity |  |  |  | to the northeast coast of the island | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curiosity=Attribute |
| 2 | **observe** | past | I |  |  |  | day | at some distance in something | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **look** | past |  |  |  |  |  | like a boat | tree rules |
| 4 | **overturn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **arrive** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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