The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 106

Already the water had risen to his waist, and he found himself sitting easily upon it, while its surface reflected back the image of a black swan, one of many.

Who acts: water, surface · What happens: rise, find, sit, reflect back, image · To what, where: water, waist, image, black swan

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, surface), 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	Already	already	ADV	_	5 risen	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 water	det
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 risen	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 risen	aux
5	risen	rise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 waist	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 waist	nmod:poss
8	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 risen	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 found	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 found	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 found	nsubj
12	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 risen	parataxis
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 found	obj
14	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 found	xcomp
15	easily	easily	ADV	_	14 sitting	advmod
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sitting	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 reflected	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 reflected	mark
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 surface	nmod:poss
21	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 reflected	nsubj
22	reflected	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 found	conj
23	back	back	ADV	_	22 reflected	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 image	det
25	image	image	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 reflected	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 swan	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 swan	det
28	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 swan	amod
29	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 image	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 one	punct
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 reflected	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 many	case
33	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 one	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 risen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise	past · perfect · passive		the water		to water's waist result	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: subject=Extent to waist=Result
2	find	past	water	water			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme
3	sit	gerund	water not said here		waist	easily property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon it=Location
4	reflect back	past	waist's surface	the image of a black swan		one of many obl	tree rules
5	image			a black swan			nom image «cognition 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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