The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 112
A long, long way off, in a land where water is very scarce, there lived a man and his wife and several children.
Who acts: water, long long way · What happens: be, live · To what, where: man
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, long long way), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 way | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 long | punct |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 way | amod |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADV | _ | 5 way | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 land | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 land | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 land | det |
| 10 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 way | appos |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 scarce | advmod |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 scarce | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 scarce | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 scarce | advmod |
| 15 | scarce | scarce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 land | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lived | punct |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 lived | expl |
| 18 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | acl:relcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lived | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 wife | cc |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 wife | nmod:poss |
| 23 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 man | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 children | cc |
| 25 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 children | amod |
| 26 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 man | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | water | scarce property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | past | a long long way not said here | a man and Editeur's wife and several children | there | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location |
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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