The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 102

In the middle of the river lay a stone that was always covered by water, except in dry seasons, and as the winter rains had been very heavy, he felt quite sure that not even the top of it could be seen.

Who acts: water, winter rains, Andras · What happens: lie, cover, be, feel, see · To what, where: stone, middle, top

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, winter rains, Andras), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 river	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 middle	nmod
7	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stone	det
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 covered	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 covered	aux:pass
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 covered	advmod
13	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 stone	acl:relcl
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 water	case
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 covered	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seasons	punct
17	except	except	ADP	_	20 seasons	case
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 seasons	case
19	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 seasons	amod
20	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lay	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 felt	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 felt	cc
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 heavy	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 rains	det
25	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rains	compound
26	rains	rain	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 heavy	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 heavy	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 heavy	cop
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 heavy	advmod
30	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 felt	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 heavy	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 felt	nsubj
33	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lay	conj
34	quite	quite	ADV	_	35 sure	advmod
35	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 felt	xcomp
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 seen	mark
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 top	advmod
38	even	even	ADV	_	40 top	advmod
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 top	det
40	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 seen	nsubj:pass
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 top	nmod
43	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 seen	aux
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 seen	aux:pass
45	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 sure	ccomp
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past		a stone	the middle of the river	season		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stone=Theme
2	cover	past · passive	water	a stone			always property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Destination
3	is	past · perfect	the winter rains				heavy property	tree rules
4	feel	past	Andras				sure property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	see	could · passive		the top of river				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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