The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 33

The next moment by the light of the moon they beheld the huge stones near them leave their places and go down the slope leading to the river, knocking against each other in their haste.

Who acts: next moment, jewels, slope · What happens: behold, leave, go down, lead, knock, light · To what, where: huge stones, places, slope, haste, moon

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next moment, jewels, slope), 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	3 moment	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 moment	amod
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 beheld	nsubj
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 light	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 light	det
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moment	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 moon	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 moon	det
9	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 light	nmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 beheld	nsubj
11	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stones	det
13	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stones	amod
14	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 beheld	obj
15	near	near	ADP	_	17 leave	mark
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 leave	nsubj
17	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 beheld	advcl
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 places	nmod:poss
19	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 leave	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 go	cc
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 leave	conj
22	down	down	ADV	_	21 go	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 slope	det
24	slope	slope	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 go	obj
25	leading	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 slope	acl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 river	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 river	det
28	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 leading	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 knocking	punct
30	knocking	knock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 go	advcl
31	against	against	ADP	_	32 each	case
32	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	30 knocking	obl
33	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 each	fixed
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 haste	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 haste	nmod:poss
36	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 knocking	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 beheld	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	behold	past	the next moment by the light of the moon	the huge stones			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stone=Stimulus
2	leave	present	jewels = jewel	jewels's places			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
3	go down	infinitive	jewels = jewel not said here	the slope		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient slope=Extent
4	lead	gerund	the slope not said here			to the river	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to river=Patient
5	knock	gerund	jewels = jewel not said here		jewels's haste	against each	vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against each=Location
6	light			the moon			nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=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 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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