---
title: I returned immediately to the city for help, and after a huge amount… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I returned immediately to the city for help, and after a huge amount of labor I managed to get my boat to the royal port of Blefuscu, where a great crowd of people appeared, full of wonder at sight of so prodigious a vessel. Who acts: I, great crowd. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lan
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/47/3/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 V](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/47/) / 3

# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter V, sentence 3

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
I returned immediately to the city for help, and after a huge amount of labor I managed to get my boat to the royal port of Blefuscu, where a great crowd of people appeared, full of wonder at sight of so prodigious a vessel.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** I, great crowd · **What happens:** return, manage, get, appear, amount · **To what, where:** boat, labor

<!-- .vabout -->
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, great crowd), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg503:47:3
# text = I returned immediately to the city for help, and after a huge amount of labor I managed to get my boat to the royal port of Blefuscu, where a great crowd of people appeared, full of wonder at sight of so prodigious a vessel.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	labor	labor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	managed	manage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Blefuscu	Blefuscu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
30	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	36	advmod	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
36	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	parataxis	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
43	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
44	so	so	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	prodigious	prodigious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	conj	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | I |  |  |  |  | to the city for help *result*; immediately *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to city=Result |
| 2 | **manage** | past | I |  |  |  | after a huge amount of labor |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | my boat |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boat=Stimulus |
| 4 | **appear** | past | a great crowd of people |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **amount** |  |  | labor |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/47/2/)
- next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/47/4/)
- ↑ back to [Chapter V](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/47/)