The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 30

So she lay there, cold as snow, and shivering like the surface of a lake ruffled by the wind.

Who acts: moonstone · What happens: lie, shiver, ruffle · To what, where: lake

This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., 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 (moonstone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 lay	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 lay	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cold	punct
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lay	xcomp
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 snow	case
8	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cold	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shivering	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 shivering	cc
11	shivering	shiver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 lay	advcl
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 surface	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 surface	det
14	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shivering	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 lake	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 lake	det
17	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 surface	nmod
18	ruffled	ruffle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 lake	acl
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 wind	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wind	det
21	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ruffled	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	moonstone		there	cold property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shiver	gerund	moonstone not said here			like the surface of a lake	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	ruffle	participle		a lake not said here		by the wind	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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 descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, Project Gutenberg book 68641 (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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🌲 The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 30

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 30