The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 74
Far, far from here is a kingdom, and by its capital city is a lake, and in the lake is a dragon, and inside the dragon is a wild boar, and inside the wild boar is a pigeon, and inside the pigeon a sparrow, and inside the sparrow is my strength.”
Who acts: wild boar · What happens: be · To what, where: kingdom, lake, dragon, wild boar, pigeon, strength
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 (wild boar), 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 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 far | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Far | punct |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 kingdom | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 here | case |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 far | obl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 kingdom | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 kingdom | det |
| 8 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lake | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lake | cc |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 city | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 city | nmod:poss |
| 13 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 city | compound |
| 14 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lake | obl |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 lake | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 lake | det |
| 17 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kingdom | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 dragon | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 dragon | cc |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 lake | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lake | det |
| 22 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dragon | obl |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 dragon | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 dragon | det |
| 25 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lake | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 boar | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 boar | cc |
| 28 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 30 dragon | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 dragon | det |
| 30 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 boar | obl |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 boar | cop |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 boar | det |
| 33 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 boar | amod |
| 34 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kingdom | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 pigeon | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 pigeon | cc |
| 37 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 40 boar | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 boar | det |
| 39 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 boar | amod |
| 40 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 pigeon | nsubj |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 pigeon | cop |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 pigeon | det |
| 43 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kingdom | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 pigeon | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 pigeon | cc |
| 46 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 48 pigeon | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 pigeon | det |
| 48 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kingdom | conj |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 sparrow | det |
| 50 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 pigeon | appos |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 strength | punct |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 strength | cc |
| 53 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 55 sparrow | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 sparrow | det |
| 55 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 strength | obl |
| 56 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 58 strength | cop |
| 57 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 58 strength | nmod:poss |
| 58 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 pigeon | appos |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 58 strength | punct |
| 60 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 58 strength | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a kingdom and a lake and a dragon and a wild boar and a pigeon and the pigeon | far property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a lake and a dragon | by tree's capital city | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a dragon | the lake | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | a wild boar | inside the dragon | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | the wild boar | a pigeon | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | my strength | the sparrow | 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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