The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 235

There lay a great white marble column which had fallen to the ground and broken into three pieces, but between these grew the most beautiful white flowers.

Who acts: great white marble column, these · What happens: lie, fall, break, grow · To what, where: great white marble column, three pieces, beautiful white flowers

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great white marble column, these), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 lay	expl
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 column	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 column	amod
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 column	amod
6	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 column	compound
7	column	column	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obj
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 fallen	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fallen	aux
10	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 column	acl:relcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 ground	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ground	det
13	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fallen	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 broken	cc
15	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 fallen	conj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 pieces	case
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 pieces	nummod
18	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 broken	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 grew	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 grew	cc
21	between	between	ADP	_	22 these	case
22	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 grew	nsubj
23	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 flowers	det
25	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	26 beautiful	advmod
26	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 flowers	amod
27	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 flowers	amod
28	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 grew	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past		a great white marble column	there		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location column=Theme
2	fall	past · perfect	a great white marble column			to the ground	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme
3	break	participle	a great white marble column not said here			into three pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into piece=Result
4	grow	past	these	the beautiful white flowers			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flower=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 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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