The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 81

Far, far away, where the heavens touch the earth, where the stars kiss the flowers, a soft red light was seen, such as the sky sometimes has in spring, only lovelier, more wonderful.

Who acts: heavens, stars · What happens: touch, kiss, see, have · To what, where: earth, flowers, soft red light

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heavens, stars), 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	Far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 touch	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Far	punct
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 away	advmod
4	away	away	ADV	_	9 touch	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 touch	punct
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 touch	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 heavens	det
8	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 touch	nsubj
9	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 earth	det
11	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 touch	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 kiss	punct
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 kiss	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stars	det
15	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 kiss	nsubj
16	kiss	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 earth	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 flowers	det
18	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 kiss	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 seen	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 light	det
21	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 light	amod
22	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 light	amod
23	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seen	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 seen	aux:pass
25	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 kiss	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 has	punct
27	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	30 sky	case
28	as	as	ADP	_	27 such	fixed
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sky	det
30	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 has	obl
31	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	32 has	advmod
32	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 seen	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 spring	case
34	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 has	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 lovelier	punct
36	only	only	ADV	_	37 lovelier	advmod
37	lovelier	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 has	parataxis
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 wonderful	punct
39	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	40 wonderful	advmod
40	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 lovelier	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 touch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	touch	present	the heavens	the earth		away, far property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Co-Theme
2	kiss	present	the stars	the flowers			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Co-Agent
3	see	past · passive		a soft red light			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
4	have	present			spring	such the sky; sometimes property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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 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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