The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 198

Houses and trees were being blown down, the mountains were being shaken, and pieces of rock were rolling in the sea.

Who acts: pieces · What happens: blow down, shake, roll · To what, where: Houses, mountains, sea

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pieces), 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	Houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 blown	nsubj:pass
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 trees	cc
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Houses	conj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 blown	aux:pass
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 blown	aux:pass
6	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 blown	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shaken	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mountains	det
10	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 shaken	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 shaken	aux:pass
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 shaken	aux:pass
13	shaken	shake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 blown	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 rolling	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 rolling	cc
16	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 rolling	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 rock	case
18	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pieces	nmod
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 rolling	aux
20	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 shaken	advcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 sea	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sea	det
23	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rolling	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 blown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	blow down	past · passive		Houses and trees		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient
2	shake	past · passive		the mountains		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient
3	roll	past · progressive	pieces of rock		the sea	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Trajectory

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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