The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 73
“My strength,” replied the dragon, “lies far away; so far that you could never reach it.
Who acts: strength, you · What happens: reply, not reach · To what, where: dragon, strength · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strength, you), 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 strength | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 strength | nmod:poss |
| 3 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 strength | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 strength | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dragon | det |
| 8 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lies | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 lies | punct |
| 11 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 replied | conj |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 away | advmod |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 lies | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 far | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 far | advmod |
| 16 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 replied | advmod |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 reach | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 reach | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 reach | aux |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 reach | advmod |
| 21 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 far | advcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 reach | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | My strength | the dragon | far property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dragon=Topic | |||
| 2 | not reach in a quote | could | you | strength | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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