The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 61

It lies east of the sun and west of the moon, and never would you find your way there.”

Who acts: way, you · What happens: lie, not find · To what, where: way

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lies	nsubj
2	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	east	east	ADV	_	2 lies	advmod
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 sun	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sun	det
6	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lies	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 moon	cc
8	west	west	ADV	_	11 moon	advmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 moon	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 moon	det
11	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sun	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 find	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 find	cc
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 find	advmod
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 find	aux
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 find	nsubj
17	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lies	parataxis
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 way	nmod:poss
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 find	obj
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 way	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lies	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 lies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present	way					of the sun and the moon; east property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not find	would	you	your way					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

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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