The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 124
A little distance from the river an immense desert stretched away.
What happens: stretch away · To what, where: little distance
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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 distance | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 distance | amod |
| 3 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stretched | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 river | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 river | det |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 distance | nmod |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 desert | det |
| 8 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 desert | amod |
| 9 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stretched | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 stretched | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch away | participle · passive | a little distance from the river | away property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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