The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 73
Their road led over a heath where huge boulders of rock lay scattered here and there.
Who acts: huge boulders · What happens: lead, lay, scatter · To what, where: road, heath
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huge boulders), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 road | nmod:poss |
| 2 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 road | acl |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 heath | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 heath | det |
| 6 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 lay | advmod |
| 8 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 boulders | amod |
| 9 | boulders | boulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lay | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 rock | case |
| 11 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 boulders | nmod |
| 12 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 heath | advcl |
| 13 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 lay | xcomp |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 scattered | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 there | cc |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 here | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 road | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | participle | laces's road not said here | a heath | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent over heath=Destination | ||||
| 2 | lay | present | huge boulders of rock | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | scatter | participle | huge boulders of rock not said here | here | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=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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