Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 30
Large blocks of stone lay there, overgrown with moss of every color; the fresh spring bubbled forth, and made a strange gurgling sound.
Who acts: Large blocks · What happens: lie, overgrow, bubble, make · To what, where: strange gurgling sound
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Large blocks), 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 | Large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 blocks | amod |
| 2 | blocks | block | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 stone | case |
| 4 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 blocks | nmod |
| 5 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lay | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 overgrown | punct |
| 8 | overgrown | overgrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 lay | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 moss | case |
| 10 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 overgrown | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 color | case |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 color | det |
| 13 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 moss | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 bubbled | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 spring | det |
| 16 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 spring | amod |
| 17 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bubbled | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | bubbled | bubble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 lay | conj |
| 19 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 18 bubbled | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 made | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 made | cc |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lay | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 sound | det |
| 24 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sound | amod |
| 25 | gurgling | gurgling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sound | compound |
| 26 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | Large blocks of stone | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | overgrow | participle | Large blocks of stone not said here | with moss of every color | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bubble | participle | Large blocks of stone not said here | spring | forth property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||
| 4 | make | past | Large blocks of stone not said here | a strange gurgling sound | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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