The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 43

As far as eye can see, there is no bird in sight.’

Who acts: eye, bird · What happens: see, be

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eye, bird), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 far	advmod
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 is	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 see	mark
4	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 far	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 far	punct
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 is	expl
9	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 bird	det
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 is	nsubj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 sight	case
13	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bird	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 is	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	can	eye						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	be	present	no bird in sight			there		far property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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