The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 111

The island was large, and lying almost across it was a lake, with a narrow opening to the sea.

Who acts: island, it · What happens: be, lie · To what, where: lake

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (island, it), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 island	det
2	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 large	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 large	cop
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lake	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 lake	cc
7	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 lake	csubj
8	almost	almost	ADV	_	13 lake	advmod
9	across	across	ADP	_	13 lake	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lake	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lake	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 lake	det
13	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 large	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 opening	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 opening	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 opening	det
17	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 opening	amod
18	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 large	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 sea	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sea	det
21	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 opening	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 large	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the island		large property	tree rules
2	lie	gerund				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	it	a lake	almost property	tree rules

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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