The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 24

‘Look,’ he said, ‘at the water which lies far out yonder, and the plains which stretch beyond.

Who acts: heart, water, plains · What happens: look, say, lie, stretch · To what, where: plains · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (heart, water, plains), 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	_	2 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 water	punct
8	‘	‘	CCONJ	_	11 water	cc
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 water	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 lies	nsubj
13	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 water	acl:relcl
14	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 out	advmod
15	out	out	ADV	_	13 lies	advmod
16	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	13 lies	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 plains	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 plains	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 plains	det
20	plains	plain	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	obl
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 stretch	nsubj
22	stretch	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 plains	acl:relcl
23	beyond	beyond	ADV	_	22 stretch	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	infinitive				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	heart	the plains		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	lie	present	the water		out, yonder property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stretch	present	the plains		beyond property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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