The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 145

What heat could be he never knew before, and on the way, not a stone’s throw from the road, lay the most delicious valleys, full of shady trees and bubbling streams.

Who acts: heat, stone · What happens: not be, lay, bubble, throw · To what, where: heat, delicious valleys, way, streams, road

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heat, stone), 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 heat	det
2	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 knew	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 knew	cop
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 knew	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 knew	advmod
7	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heat	acl:relcl
8	before	before	ADV	_	7 knew	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lay	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lay	cc
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 way	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 way	det
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lay	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 throw	punct
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 throw	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 stone	det
17	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 throw	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 stone	case
19	throw	throw	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 way	conj
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 road	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 road	det
22	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 throw	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 way	punct
24	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 knew	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 valleys	det
26	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	27 delicious	advmod
27	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 valleys	amod
28	valleys	valley	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 lay	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 full	punct
30	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 valleys	amod
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 trees	case
32	shady	shady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 trees	amod
33	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 full	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 bubbling	cc
35	bubbling	bubble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 full	conj
36	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 bubbling	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	could	heat	what heat not said here		before, know property	tree rules
2	lay	infinitive	heat not said here	the delicious valleys	the way and a stone's throw from the road		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent valley=Theme on way=Destination
3	bubble	gerund	heat not said here	streams			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stream=Source
4	throw		a stone		the road		nom throw «act transitive»: poss=agent from=place

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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