The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 102

Of course the ball was not long enough to go all the way, but it lay on the edge of a snowy track which led straight to the Stalos' house.

Who acts: ball, snowy track · What happens: be, lie, lead · To what, where: edge

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ball, snowy track), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	4 ball	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ball	det
4	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 go	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 enough	advmod
8	enough	enough	ADV	_	10 go	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 go	mark
10	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 way	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 way	det
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lay	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 lay	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lay	nsubj
17	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 go	parataxis
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 edge	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 edge	det
20	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lay	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 track	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 track	det
23	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 track	amod
24	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 edge	nmod
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 led	nsubj
26	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 track	acl:relcl
27	straight	straight	ADV	_	32 house	advmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	32 house	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Stalos	det
30	Stalos	Stalos	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 house	nmod:poss
31	'	's	PART	_	30 Stalos	case
32	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 led	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past			of the ball; all way obl:unmarked; enough, go property	tree rules
2	lie	past	ball	the edge of a snowy track		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on edge=Location
3	lead	past	a snowy track		to the Stalos's house	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to house=Patient

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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