The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 45

In the shadow of some trees lay the rest of the flock.

Who acts: trees · What happens: lay · To what, where: rest, shadow

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 shadow	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shadow	det
3	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 trees	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 trees	det
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lay	nsubj
7	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rest	det
9	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 flock	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 flock	det
12	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rest	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	some trees	the rest of the flock		the shadow			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rest=Theme in shadow=Destination

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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