The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 71
‘Yes; and in order to get there I have come from a country so far off that it has taken me three months’ hard riding to travel as far as this.’
What happens: come, take, travel · To what, where: I, country, it
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 12 come | discourse |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 come | cc |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 8 get | mark |
| 6 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 in | fixed |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 come | aux:pass |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 get | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 come | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 country | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 country | det |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 far | advmod |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 come | advmod |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 taken | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 taken | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 taken | aux |
| 22 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 riding | advcl |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 taken | obj |
| 24 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 months | nummod |
| 25 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 taken | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 taken | punct |
| 27 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 riding | amod |
| 28 | riding | riding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 travel | mark |
| 30 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 riding | acl |
| 31 | as | as | ADV | _ | 32 far | advmod |
| 32 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 travel | advmod |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 this | case |
| 34 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 far | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 36 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | infinitive · perfect · passive | I | a country | hard riding obl; far property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | present · perfect · passive | it | month | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme i=Destination | ||||
| 3 | travel | to-infinitive | far property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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