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title: For seven weeks the wind blew them straight towards the west, and ea… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For seven weeks the wind blew them straight towards the west, and early one morning they caught sight of the island swamps of the sea. Who acts: wind, sails. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 82

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For seven weeks the wind blew them straight towards the west, and early one morning they caught sight of the island swamps of the sea.

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**Who acts:** wind, sails · **What happens:** blow, catch, sight · **To what, where:** sails, sight, island swamps

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, sails), 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:pg641:39:82
# text = For seven weeks the wind blew them straight towards the west, and early one morning they caught sight of the island swamps of the sea.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	swamps	swamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | the wind | sails *= sail* |  |  | week | towards the west | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Patient towards west=Recipient |
| 2 | **catch** | past | sails *= sail* | sight of the island swamps of the sea |  |  | morning |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme |
| 3 | **sight** |  |  | the island swamps of the sea |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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