The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 89
Look at those beautiful precious stones lying there.
Who acts: you, beautiful precious stones · What happens: look, lie
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 (you, beautiful precious stones), 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 stones | case |
| 3 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 stones | det |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stones | amod |
| 5 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stones | amod |
| 6 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Look | obl |
| 7 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 stones | acl |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 lying | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | at that beautiful precious stones | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at stone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lie | gerund | that beautiful precious stones not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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