The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 52
“Is the island far off, and which is the way to it?”
Who acts: island · What happens: be · To what, where: island, way
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (island), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 island | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 island | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 island | det |
| 4 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 off | advmod |
| 6 | off | off | ADV | _ | 4 island | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 way | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 way | cc |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 way | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 way | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 island | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 way | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 island | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 island | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the island and the way | off property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the island and the way | the way | Island | tree rules |
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.
Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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