The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 122
‘We are not far from Africa’--and as he said that they were there.
Who acts: We, boy, eyes · What happens: not be, say, be · To what, where: Africa · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, boy, eyes), 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 | _ | 5 far | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 far | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 far | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 far | advmod |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 said | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Africa | case |
| 7 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 far | obl |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 far | punct |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 said | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 there | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 there | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 there | cop |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 said | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | We | Africa | far property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | eyes = eye | there property | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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