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title: Large blocks of stone lay there, overgrown with moss of every color;… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Large blocks of stone lay there, overgrown with moss of every color; the fresh spring bubbled forth, and made a strange gurgling sound. Who acts: Large blocks. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 30

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Large blocks of stone lay there, overgrown with moss of every color; the fresh spring bubbled forth, and made a strange gurgling sound.

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**Who acts:** Large blocks · **What happens:** lie, overgrow, bubble, make · **To what, where:** strange gurgling sound

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Large blocks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:18:30
# text = Large blocks of stone lay there, overgrown with moss of every color; the fresh spring bubbled forth, and made a strange gurgling sound.
1	Large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	blocks	block	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	overgrown	overgrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	bubbled	bubble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
19	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	gurgling	gurgling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | Large blocks of stone |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **overgrow** | participle | Large blocks of stone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with moss of every color | tree rules |
| 3 | **bubble** | participle | Large blocks of stone *not said here* |  |  |  | spring | forth *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 4 | **make** | past | Large blocks of stone *not said here* | a strange gurgling sound |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product |

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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.

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**Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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