The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 189

“We come from a far distant country.”

Who acts: We · What happens: come · To what, where: distant country

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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	_	3 come	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	8 country	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 country	det
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 distant	advmod
7	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 country	amod
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	present	We			a distant country			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from country=Initial_Location

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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