The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 35
‘Far, far from here,’ said he, ‘in a lonely spot, stands a great church, as old as old can be.
Who acts: man, great church · What happens: say, stand, be · To what, where: lonely spot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, great church), 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 far | punct |
| 2 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 far | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Far | punct |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 said | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 here | case |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 far | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 far | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 far | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stands | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ‘ | CCONJ | _ | 18 stands | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 spot | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 spot | det |
| 15 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 spot | amod |
| 16 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stands | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spot | punct |
| 18 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 church | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 church | amod |
| 21 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stands | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 old | punct |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 old | case |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 stands | parataxis |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 old | case |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 old | obl |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 be | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 old | cop |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | man | far property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stand | present | a great church | a lonely spot | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in spot=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | as old; old property | tree rules |
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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