The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 27

Towns and villages were destroyed by the power of the rain, only the great rock on the mountain side remained unmoved.

Who acts: power, great rock · What happens: destroy, remain · To what, where: Towns

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (power, great rock), 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	Towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 destroyed	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 villages	cc
3	villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Towns	conj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 destroyed	aux:pass
5	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 power	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 power	det
8	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 destroyed	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 rain	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rain	det
11	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 power	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rock	punct
13	only	only	ADV	_	16 rock	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rock	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 rock	amod
16	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 remained	nsubj
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 side	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 side	det
19	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 side	compound
20	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rock	nmod
21	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 destroyed	parataxis
22	unmoved	unmoved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 remained	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 destroyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	destroy	past · passive	the power of the rain	Towns and villages					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	remain	past	the great rock on the mountain side					unmoved property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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