The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 38

But, instead, it saw something lying in the earth, which turned out to be a diamond, very large and bright.

Who acts: grass, earth · What happens: see, lie, turn out, be · To what, where: something, earth, diamond

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grass, earth), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 saw	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct
3	instead	instead	ADV	_	6 saw	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 instead	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 saw	obj
8	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 something	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 earth	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 earth	det
11	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lying	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 turned	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 turned	nsubj
14	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 earth	acl:relcl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 turned	compound:prt
16	to	to	PART	_	19 diamond	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 diamond	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 diamond	det
19	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 turned	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 large	punct
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 large	advmod
22	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 diamond	amod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bright	cc
24	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 large	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	grass	something		instead property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
2	lie	gerund			the earth		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in earth=Location
3	turn out	past	the earth				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	to-infinitive	the earth not said here	a diamond			tree rules

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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