The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 61

‘Can you tell me how much further I have still to go before I reach that mountain yonder?’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: tell, have, go, reach · To what, where: me, mountain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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	_	4 tell	punct
2	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 further	advmod
8	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 have	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	advcl
11	still	still	ADV	_	10 have	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 go	mark
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 have	xcomp
14	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 reach	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 reach	nsubj
16	reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 go	advcl
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 mountain	det
18	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reach	obj
19	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	16 reach	advmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	can	you		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	have	present	I			still	far property	tree rules
3	go	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	reach	present	I	that mountain			yonder property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mountain=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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