The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 12
A heap of corpses both of riders and horses lay round the mountain, and many dying men lay groaning there unable to go any farther with their wounded limbs.
Who acts: heap, many dying men · What happens: lay, die, lie, groan, go
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (heap, many dying men), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 heap | det |
| 2 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 corpses | case |
| 4 | corpses | corpse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 heap | nmod |
| 5 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 riders | det |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 riders | case |
| 7 | riders | rider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lay | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 horses | cc |
| 9 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 riders | conj |
| 10 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | round | round | ADP | _ | 13 mountain | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mountain | det |
| 13 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lay | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lay | cc |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 men | amod |
| 17 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 men | amod |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 lay | nsubj |
| 19 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lay | advcl |
| 20 | groaning | groan | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 lay | xcomp |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 groaning | advmod |
| 22 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 groaning | xcomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 go | mark |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 unable | xcomp |
| 25 | any | any | ADV | _ | 26 farther | advmod |
| 26 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 go | advmod |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 limbs | case |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 29 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 limbs | amod |
| 30 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 go | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | a heap of corpses | round the mountain | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | die | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 3 | lie | past | many dying men | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | groan | gerund | many dying men not said here | there | unable property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | many dying men not said here | with riders's wounded limbs; far property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with limb=Beneficiary |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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