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title: Far, far away, hundreds of thousands of miles from this, there lies… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Far, far away, hundreds of thousands of miles from this, there lies a desolate country covered with thick jungle. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 44

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Far, far away, hundreds of thousands of miles from this, there lies a desolate country covered with thick jungle.

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**What happens:** lie, desolate, cover · **To what, where:** desolate country

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7128:10:44
# text = Far, far away, hundreds of thousands of miles from this, there lies a desolate country covered with thick jungle.
1	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	compound	_	_
18	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present |  | a desolate country |  | there |  | far *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location country=Theme |
| 2 | **desolate** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cover** | participle |  | a desolate country *not said here* |  |  |  | with thick jungle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with jungle=Theme |

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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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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