The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 31

‘And how am I to travel such a distance?’

Who acts: I · What happens: travel · To what, where: distance

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	_	7 travel	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 travel	cc
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 travel	advmod
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 travel	aux
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 travel	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 travel	mark
7	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	10 distance	det:predet
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 distance	det
10	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 travel	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 travel	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 travel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	present	I	such distance					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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