Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 77
The road led them across a heath upon which huge pieces of rock lay strewn about.
Who acts: road, huge pieces · What happens: lead, lie, strew · To what, where: needles, heath
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» 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 (road, huge pieces), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2591:2662): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 road | det |
| 2 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 led | obj |
| 5 | across | across | ADP | _ | 7 heath | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 heath | det |
| 7 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 lay | obl |
| 10 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pieces | amod |
| 11 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lay | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 rock | case |
| 13 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pieces | nmod |
| 14 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heath | acl:relcl |
| 15 | strewn | strew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 lay | xcomp |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 strewn | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the road | needles = needle | a heath | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme across heath=Destination | |||
| 2 | lie | past | huge pieces of rock | upon a heath | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | strew | participle | huge pieces of rock not said here | about property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: 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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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