The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 87

It was lying inside the mountain like heaps of stones in a waste place, and he got a load that was as large as he was able to carry, and with that he went his way.

Who acts: silver, Prince, that · What happens: lie, get, be, carry, go · To what, where: mountain, load, way

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (silver, Prince, that), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lying	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lying	aux
3	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	inside	inside	ADP	_	6 mountain	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mountain	det
6	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lying	obl
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 heaps	case
8	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lying	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 stones	case
10	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 heaps	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 place	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 place	det
13	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 place	compound
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stones	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 got	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 got	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 got	nsubj
18	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lying	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 load	det
20	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 got	obj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 large	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 large	cop
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 large	advmod
24	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 load	amod
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 able	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 able	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 able	cop
28	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 large	csubj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 carry	mark
30	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 able	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 went	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 went	cc
33	with	with	SCONJ	_	36 went	mark
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 went	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 went	nsubj
36	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 got	conj
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 way	nmod:poss
38	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 went	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past · progressive	silver		the mountain	like heaps of stones in a waste place	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside mountain=Location
2	get	past	Prince	a load			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer load=Stimulus
3	is	past	that			large property	tree rules
4	is	past	Prince			able property	tree rules
5	carry	to-infinitive	Prince not said here				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	go	past	Prince	Prince's way			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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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