The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 69
‘It is a long way off,’ replied the wind, ‘on the other side of the Red Sea.’
Who acts: gold · What happens: be, reply · To what, where: long way, wind · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gold), 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 | _ | 6 way | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 way | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 way | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 way | amod |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 7 | off | off | ADV | _ | 6 way | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 way | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 way | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wind | det |
| 12 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 side | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 side | punct |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 side | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 side | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 side | amod |
| 18 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wind | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Sea | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Sea | det |
| 21 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Sea | compound |
| 22 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 side | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | gold | a long way | off property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the wind and the other side of the Red Sea | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wind=Topic |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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