The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 13
For many, many miles the country looked the same as it did round his own home.
Who acts: country · What happens: look, do · To what, where: same
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 miles | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 miles | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 many | punct |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 miles | amod |
| 5 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 looked | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 country | det |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | nsubj |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 same | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 looked | obj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 did | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 did | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 looked | advcl |
| 14 | round | round | ADP | _ | 17 home | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 home | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 home | amod |
| 17 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 did | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the country | the same | for many many miles | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme same=Attribute | |||
| 2 | do | past | country | round thing's own home | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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