The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 16

The pond lay still and motionless, glittering in the moonshine, and the hunter’s wife was not a bit better off than she had been before.

Who acts: pond, wife · What happens: lie, glitter, be · To what, where: moonshine

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pond, wife), 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 pond	det
2	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	still	still	ADV	_	3 lay	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 motionless	cc
6	motionless	motionless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 still	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 glittering	punct
8	glittering	glitter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 lay	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 moonshine	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 moonshine	det
11	moonshine	moonshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 glittering	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 better	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 better	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hunter	det
15	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wife	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 hunter	case
17	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 better	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 better	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 bit	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bit	det
21	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 better	obl:unmarked
22	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 lay	conj
23	off	off	ADP	_	22 better	compound:prt
24	than	than	SCONJ	_	28 before	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 before	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 before	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 before	cop
28	before	before	ADV	_	22 better	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the pond		still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	glitter	gerund	the pond not said here	the moonshine			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in moonshine=Location
3	is	past	the hunter's wife			a bit obl:unmarked; good property	tree rules
4	is	past · perfect	wife			before 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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