The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 31
‘My country, sire, is far away across many seas.
Who acts: country · What happens: be · To what, where: many seas
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 away | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 country | nmod:poss |
| 3 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 away | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sire | punct |
| 5 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 country | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 country | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 away | cop |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 away | advmod |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 10 | across | across | ADP | _ | 12 seas | case |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 seas | amod |
| 12 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 away | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 away | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My country and sire | many seas | away, far property | tree rules |
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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