Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 16

The road lay amidst brushwood and underwood, over rolling stones, always upwards higher and higher in the dark night.

Who acts: road · What happens: lie, roll · To what, where: amidst brushwood, rolling stones

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road), 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 road	det
2	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	amidst	amidst	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brushwood	amod
5	brushwood	brushwood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 underwood	cc
7	underwood	underwood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brushwood	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stones	punct
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 stones	case
10	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 stones	amod
11	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lay	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 higher	punct
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	15 higher	advmod
14	upwards	upwards	ADV	_	15 higher	advmod
15	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 lay	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 higher	cc
17	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 higher	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 night	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 night	det
20	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 night	amod
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 higher	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the road	amidst brushwood and underwood		rolling stones			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location brushwood=Theme
2	roll	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2 «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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/58/16/