The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 99
At last with a great heave he moved it out of the road, and as it fell he knew it was a huge rock.
Who acts: Prince, back · What happens: move, fall, know, be · To what, where: back, road, huge rock · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, back), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 knew | advmod |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 heave | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 heave | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 heave | amod |
| 6 | heave | heave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 last | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 moved | nsubj |
| 8 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heave | acl:relcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 moved | obj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 road | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 road | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 road | det |
| 13 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 moved | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 knew | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 knew | cc |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 fell | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fell | nsubj |
| 18 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 knew | advcl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 knew | nsubj |
| 20 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 rock | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 rock | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 rock | det |
| 24 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 rock | amod |
| 25 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 knew | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | Prince | back | the road | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme out road=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | fall | past | back | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | know | past | Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | back | a huge rock | tree rules |
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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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