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title: Far, far away, where the heavens touch the earth, where the stars ki… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Far, far away, where the heavens touch the earth, where the stars kiss the flowers, a soft red light was seen, such as the sky sometimes has in spring, only lovelier, more wonderful. Who acts: heavens, stars. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, with i
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 81

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Far, far away, where the heavens touch the earth, where the stars kiss the flowers, a soft red light was seen, such as the sky sometimes has in spring, only lovelier, more wonderful.

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**Who acts:** heavens, stars · **What happens:** touch, kiss, see, have · **To what, where:** earth, flowers, soft red light

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heavens, stars), 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:pg641:21:81
# text = Far, far away, where the heavens touch the earth, where the stars kiss the flowers, a soft red light was seen, such as the sky sometimes has in spring, only lovelier, more wonderful.
1	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	touch	touch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	kiss	kiss	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	30	case	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
31	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	32	advmod	_	_
32	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	only	only	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	lovelier	lovely	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	40	advmod	_	_
40	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | present | the heavens | the earth |  |  |  | away, far *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **kiss** | present | the stars | the flowers |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **see** | past · passive |  | a soft red light |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **have** | present |  |  |  |  | spring | such the sky; sometimes *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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