The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 65
You must go over a hundred miles into Finland, for there the Snow-queen lives, and every night she burns Bengal lights.
Who acts: You, woman · What happens: go over, burn · To what, where: hundred miles, Finland, Bengal lights
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, woman), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADV | _ | 6 hundred | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hundred | det |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 miles | nummod |
| 7 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 go | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 Finland | case |
| 9 | Finland | Finland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 there | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 there | case |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 go | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lives | det |
| 14 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 queen | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Snow | punct |
| 16 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lives | compound |
| 17 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 there | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 burns | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 burns | cc |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 night | det |
| 21 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 burns | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 burns | nsubj |
| 23 | burns | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | parataxis |
| 24 | Bengal | Bengal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 lights | compound |
| 25 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 burns | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go over | must | You | hundred miles | Finland | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | burn | present | woman | Bengal lights | night | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent light=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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