The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 1
Long, long ago there stood in the midst of a country covered with lakes a vast stretch of moorland called the Tontlawald, on which no man ever dared set foot.
Who acts: country, man · What happens: stand, cover, call, dare · To what, where: midst, lakes, vast stretch, set foot, Tontlawald · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country, man), 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 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stood | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Long | punct |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 ago | advmod |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 there | advmod |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 stood | advmod |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 midst | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 midst | det |
| 9 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 country | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 country | det |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 midst | nmod |
| 13 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 country | acl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 lakes | case |
| 15 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 covered | obj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 stretch | det |
| 17 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 stretch | amod |
| 18 | stretch | stretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lakes | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 moorland | case |
| 20 | moorland | moorland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stretch | nmod |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 stretch | acl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Tontlawald | det |
| 23 | Tontlawald | Tontlawald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 called | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 dared | punct |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 dared | obl |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 man | det |
| 28 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dared | nsubj |
| 29 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 30 dared | advmod |
| 30 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 Tontlawald | acl:relcl |
| 31 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 foot | amod |
| 32 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dared | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the midst of a country; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in midst=Location | |||||
| 2 | cover | participle | a country not said here | lakes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lake=Destination | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | a vast stretch of moorland not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | dare | past | no man | set foot | the Tontlawald | ever | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Recipient |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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