Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 44
Far, far away, hundreds of thousands of miles from this, there lies a desolate country covered with thick jungle.
What happens: lie, desolate, cover · To what, where: desolate country
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 3 far | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Far | punct |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 lies | advmod |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 far | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 far | punct |
| 6 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 far | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 thousands | case |
| 8 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hundreds | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 miles | case |
| 10 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 thousands | nmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 this | case |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 hundreds | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 far | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 lies | expl |
| 15 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 country | det |
| 17 | desolate | desolate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 country | compound |
| 18 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lies | obj |
| 19 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 country | acl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 jungle | case |
| 21 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 jungle | amod |
| 22 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 covered | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | a desolate country | there | far property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location country=Theme | |||
| 2 | desolate | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | cover | participle | a desolate country not said here | with thick jungle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with jungle=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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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