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title: Their road led over a heath where huge boulders of rock lay scattere… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Their road led over a heath where huge boulders of rock lay scattered here and there. Who acts: huge boulders. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 73

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Their road led over a heath where huge boulders of rock lay scattered here and there.

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**Who acts:** huge boulders · **What happens:** lead, lay, scatter · **To what, where:** road, heath

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huge boulders), 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:pg503:36:73
# text = Their road led over a heath where huge boulders of rock lay scattered here and there.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	heath	heath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
8	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	boulders	boulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
13	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	xcomp	_	_
14	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | participle |  | laces's road *not said here* |  | a heath |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent over heath=Destination |
| 2 | **lay** | present | huge boulders of rock |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **scatter** | participle | huge boulders of rock *not said here* |  |  | here |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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