The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 22

The earth trembled a little and opened in front of them, disclosing a square flat stone with a brass ring in the middle to raise it by.

Who acts: earth · What happens: tremble, open, disclose, raise · To what, where: little, front, square flat stone, stone

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth), 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 earth	det
2	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trembled	nsubj
3	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 trembled	obl:unmarked
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 opened	cc
7	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 little	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 front	case
9	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 opened	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 front	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 disclosing	punct
13	disclosing	disclose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 trembled	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 stone	det
15	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stone	compound
16	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stone	amod
17	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 disclosing	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 ring	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 ring	det
20	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ring	compound
21	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 disclosing	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 middle	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 middle	det
24	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ring	nmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 raise	mark
26	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 disclosing	advcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 raise	obj
28	by	by	ADP	_	26 raise	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 trembled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tremble	past	the earth	a little			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	open	participle	the earth not said here		front of words		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location
3	disclose	gerund	the earth not said here	a square flat stone		with a brass ring in the middle	vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot stone=Topic
4	raise	to-infinitive	the earth not said here	stone			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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