The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 2
The Empire of Blefuscu is an island parted from Lilliput only by a channel eight hundred yards wide.
Who acts: Empire · What happens: be, part · To what, where: island
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Empire), 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 Empire | det |
| 2 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 island | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Blefuscu | case |
| 4 | Blefuscu | Blefuscu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Empire | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 island | cop |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 island | det |
| 7 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | parted | part | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 island | acl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 Lilliput | case |
| 10 | Lilliput | Lilliput | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 parted | obl |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 channel | advmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 channel | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 channel | det |
| 14 | channel | channel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 parted | obl |
| 15 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 hundred | compound |
| 16 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 yards | nummod |
| 17 | yards | yard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 wide | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 parted | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 island | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Empire of Blefuscu | a island | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | part | participle | a island not said here | by a channel; from Lilliput | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from lilliput=Co-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 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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