The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 4

The world is very, very wide, Little Lasse, Lasse, And though you’ve sailed beyond the tide, You can never tell how wide It is on the other side, Lasse, Little Lasse.

Who acts: world, you · What happens: be, have, sail, not tell · To what, where: wide other side · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 world	det
2	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wide	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wide	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	7 wide	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wide	punct
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 wide	advmod
7	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Lasse	punct
9	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Lasse	amod
10	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 wide	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Lasse	punct
12	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Lasse	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 tell	punct
14	And	and	CCONJ	_	26 tell	cc
15	though	though	SCONJ	_	17 ’ve	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 ’ve	nsubj
17	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 tell	advcl
18	sailed	sail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 ’ve	xcomp
19	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	21 tide	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tide	det
21	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sailed	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ’ve	punct
23	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 tell	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 tell	aux
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 tell	advmod
26	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wide	conj
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 wide	advmod
28	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 side	amod
29	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 side	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 side	cop
31	on	on	ADP	_	34 side	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 side	det
33	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 side	amod
34	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tell	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Lasse	punct
36	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 side	appos
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 Lasse	punct
38	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 Lasse	amod
39	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Lasse	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the world		Little Lasse and Lasse obl; wide property	tree rules
2	have	present	you			tree rules
3	sail	participle	you not said here		beyond the tide	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	not tell speech: assert	can	You			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	world	the wide other side		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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