The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 31

For the rock lay far away from the land, and there were no green islets or human habitations for miles round, only here and there appeared a rock of the same red stone as Ahtola, besprinkled day and night with the ocean spray.

What happens: lay, be, appear, besprinkle · To what, where: rock

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 rock	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rock	det
3	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
4	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 away	advmod
6	away	away	ADV	_	4 lay	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 land	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 land	det
9	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 away	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 were	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 were	cc
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 were	expl
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 round	cop
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 islets	det
15	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 islets	amod
16	islets	islet	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 were	nsubj
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 habitations	cc
18	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 habitations	amod
19	habitations	habitation	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 islets	conj
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 miles	case
21	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 habitations	nmod
22	round	round	ADV	_	4 lay	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 here	punct
24	only	only	ADV	_	25 here	advmod
25	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 lay	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 there	cc
27	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 here	conj
28	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 rock	det
30	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 appeared	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	35 stone	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 stone	det
33	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 stone	amod
34	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 stone	amod
35	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 rock	nmod
36	as	as	ADP	_	37 Ahtola	case
37	Ahtola	Ahtola	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 stone	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 day	punct
39	besprinkled	besprinkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 day	amod
40	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 Ahtola	appos
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 night	cc
42	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 day	conj
43	with	with	ADP	_	46 spray	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 spray	det
45	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 spray	compound
46	spray	spray	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 day	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	present		here	for the rock; away property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for rock=Beneficiary
2	is	past			round property	tree rules
3	appear	past	a rock of the same red stone as Ahtola			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rock=Theme
4	besprinkle	participle				tree rules

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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