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title: The great island over there was Asia; that large stone Africa; the l… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The great island over there was Asia; that large stone Africa; the little island America; the small stones were Polynesia; and the shore from which the ships sailed out was Europe. Who acts: small stones, ships, shore. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 58

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The great island over there was Asia; that large stone Africa; the little island America; the small stones were Polynesia; and the shore from which the ships sailed out was Europe.

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**Who acts:** small stones, ships, shore · **What happens:** be, sail out · **To what, where:** Asia, Polynesia, shore, Europe

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (small stones, ships, shore), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3454:14:58
# text = The great island over there was Asia; that large stone Africa; the little island America; the small stones were Polynesia; and the shore from which the ships sailed out was Europe.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
12	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
17	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	Polynesia	Polynesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
33	out	out	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  | Asia; there |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the small stones | Polynesia |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sail out** | past | the ships |  |  | the shore |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from which=Trajectory |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the shore | Europe |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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