The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 68
The land is still far distant, and without my help you would never get there.
Who acts: land, you, my · What happens: be, not get, help
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (land, you, my), 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 land | det |
| 2 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 distant | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 distant | cop |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 distant | advmod |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 distant | advmod |
| 6 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 get | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 get | cc |
| 9 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 help | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 help | nmod:poss |
| 11 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 get | obl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 get | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 get | aux |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 get | advmod |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 distant | conj |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 get | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 distant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the land | still | distant, far property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not get | would | you | there | without my help | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | help | my | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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