Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 85

The way to the town ran over a common, on which in every direction large masses of rocks were scattered about.

Who acts: way · What happens: run, scatter · To what, where: common, large masses, direction

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ran	nsubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 town	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 town	det
5	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 way	nmod
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 common	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 common	det
9	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ran	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 scattered	punct
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 scattered	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 direction	case
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 direction	det
15	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 scattered	obl
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 masses	amod
17	masses	mass	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 scattered	nsubj:pass
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 rocks	case
19	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 masses	nmod
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 scattered	aux:pass
21	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ran	conj
22	about	about	ADV	_	21 scattered	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	the way to the town			a common			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over common=Trajectory
2	scatter	past · passive		large masses of rocks		every direction		about property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on which=Destination

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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