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title: For the rock lay far away from the land, and there were no green isl… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For the rock lay far away from the land, and there were no green islets or human habitations for miles round, only here and there appeared a rock of the same red stone as Ahtola, besprinkled day and night with the ocean spray. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 31

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For the rock lay far away from the land, and there were no green islets or human habitations for miles round, only here and there appeared a rock of the same red stone as Ahtola, besprinkled day and night with the ocean spray.

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**What happens:** lay, be, appear, besprinkle · **To what, where:** rock

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg3454:23:31
# text = For the rock lay far away from the land, and there were no green islets or human habitations for miles round, only here and there appeared a rock of the same red stone as Ahtola, besprinkled day and night with the ocean spray.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
15	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	islets	islet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	habitations	habitation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	round	round	ADV	RB	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	conj	_	_
28	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
36	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Ahtola	Ahtola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	besprinkled	besprinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	amod	_	_
40	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	spray	spray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | present |  |  |  | here |  | for the rock; away *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for rock=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | round *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **appear** | past |  | a rock of the same red stone as Ahtola |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rock=Theme |
| 4 | **besprinkle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:** «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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