Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 62

There indeed was a pool of water; but what was that lying in the pool, and almost filling it?

What happens: lie, fill · To what, where: pool

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The King and His Hawk.. 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.

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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
2	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	3 was	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lying	aux
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pool	det
5	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 water	case
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pool	nmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 lying	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 lying	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 lying	obj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lying	aux
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 lying	mark
13	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 pool	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 pool	det
16	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lying	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 filling	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 filling	cc
19	almost	almost	ADV	_	20 filling	advmod
20	filling	fill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 lying	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 filling	obj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 lying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past · progressive				the pool			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme
2	fill	gerund		pool				almost property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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