The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 29
“As far as I could judge,” replied Simon, “it would take you nearly ten years in fair weather to sail there.
Who acts: Simon, it · What happens: judge, reply, take, sail · To what, where: you, fair weather · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Simon, it), 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 | _ | 3 far | punct |
| 2 | As | as | ADV | _ | 3 far | advmod |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 replied | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 judge | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 judge | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 judge | aux |
| 7 | judge | judge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 far | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 far | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 far | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 take | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | aux |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 replied | parataxis |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 19 ten | advmod |
| 19 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 years | nummod |
| 20 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 take | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 weather | case |
| 22 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 weather | amod |
| 23 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 sail | mark |
| 25 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 take | advcl |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 sail | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | judge in a quote | could | Simon | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Simon | far property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | would | it | you | fair weather | year | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Value in weather=Location | ||
| 4 | sail in a quote | to-infinitive | there | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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