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title: ‘Far, far from here,’ said he, ‘in a lonely spot, stands a great chu… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Far, far from here,’ said he, ‘in a lonely spot, stands a great church, as old as old can be. Who acts: man, great church. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 35

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‘Far, far from here,’ said he, ‘in a lonely spot, stands a great church, as old as old can be.

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**Who acts:** man, great church · **What happens:** say, stand, be · **To what, where:** lonely spot · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, great church), 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:pg5615:22:35
# text = ‘Far, far from here,’ said he, ‘in a lonely spot, stands a great church, as old as old can be.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	‘	‘	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	parataxis	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obl	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stand** | present | a great church |  |  | a lonely spot |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in spot=Location |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | as old; old *property* | 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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