The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 69

A great deal of rain had fallen in the night, and the river, instead of being clear as it was before, was dark and troubled.

Who acts: great deal, river · What happens: fall, be, deal · To what, where: rain

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great deal, river), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 deal	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 deal	amod
3	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fallen	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 rain	case
5	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 deal	nmod
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fallen	aux
7	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 night	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fallen	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 dark	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 dark	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 river	det
14	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dark	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 clear	punct
16	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	19 clear	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	16 instead	fixed
18	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 clear	cop
19	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 river	conj
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 before	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 before	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 before	cop
23	before	before	ADV	_	19 clear	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 river	punct
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 dark	cop
26	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fallen	parataxis
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 troubled	cc
28	troubled	troubled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 dark	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fallen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past · perfect	a great deal of rain		night		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	gerund	the river not said here			clear property	tree rules
3	is	past	river			before property	tree rules
4	is	past	the river			dark property	tree rules
5	be		the river not said here				tree rules
6	deal			rain			nom deal «act transitive»: of=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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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