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title: When I had made twenty-four leagues, by my reckoning, from the islan… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When I had made twenty-four leagues, by my reckoning, from the island of Blefuscu, I saw a sail steering to the northeast. Who acts: I, sail, my. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter V, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter V, sentence 18

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When I had made twenty-four leagues, by my reckoning, from the island of Blefuscu, I saw a sail steering to the northeast.

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**Who acts:** I, sail, my · **What happens:** make, see, steer, reckon · **To what, where:** four leagues, island, sail, northeast

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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 (I, sail, 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:pg503:47:18
# text = When I had made twenty-four leagues, by my reckoning, from the island of Blefuscu, I saw a sail steering to the northeast.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	leagues	league	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	reckoning	reckoning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Blefuscu	Blefuscu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	steering	steer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	northeast	northeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · perfect | I | four leagues |  | the island of Blefuscu |  | by my reckoning | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent league=Product from island=Material |
| 2 | **see** | past | I | a sail |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sail=Stimulus |
| 3 | **steer** | gerund | a sail *not said here* |  |  | the northeast |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to northeast=Destination |
| 4 | **reckon** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom reckoning «cognition transitive»: 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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