The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 15
Then, fortunately the other rock broke away from his other leg and rolled thunderously down a neighbouring ravine.
Who acts: other rock · What happens: break away, roll · To what, where: neighbouring ravine
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 broke | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | fortunately | fortunately | ADV | _ | 6 rock | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rock | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rock | amod |
| 6 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 broke | nsubj |
| 7 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 broke | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 leg | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 leg | nmod:poss |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 leg | amod |
| 12 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 broke | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rolled | cc |
| 14 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 broke | conj |
| 15 | thunderously | thunderously | ADV | _ | 14 rolled | advmod |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 ravine | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 ravine | det |
| 18 | neighbouring | neighbouring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ravine | amod |
| 19 | ravine | ravine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rolled | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break away | past | the other rock | then | from Moti's other leg; away property | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from leg=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | roll | past | the other rock not said here | a neighbouring ravine | thunderously property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down ravine=Trajectory |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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