--- title: From the island streamed a strong light, by which they could see eve… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: From the island streamed a strong light, by which they could see everything almost as clearly as if the sun had been shining, and they perceived that, lying half hidden in the rushes, was a boat. Who acts: brothers, sun, lying. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/16/43/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/16/) / 43 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 43 From the island streamed a strong light, by which they could see everything almost as clearly as if the sun had been shining, and they perceived that, lying half hidden in the rushes, was a boat. **Who acts:** brothers, sun, lying · **What happens:** stream, see, shine, perceive, lie, hide · **To what, where:** strong light, island, everything, half, rushes, boat This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, sun, lying), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3027:16:43 # text = From the island streamed a strong light, by which they could see everything almost as clearly as if the sun had been shining, and they perceived that, lying half hidden in the rushes, was a boat. 1 From from ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 4 streamed stream VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 obl _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 14 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 13 obj _ _ 15 almost almost ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 as as ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 clearly clearly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 18 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 19 if if SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 aux _ _ 24 shining shine VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 perceived perceive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 40 csubj _ _ 32 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 31 obj _ _ 33 hidden hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 rushes rush NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stream** | past | | a strong light | | the island | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location light=Theme | | 2 | **see** | could | brothers *= brother* | everything | | | | clearly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | | 3 | **shine** | past · perfect · progressive | the sun | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **perceive** | past | brothers *= brother* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **lie** | gerund | | half | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location half=Theme | | 6 | **hide** | participle | | half *not said here* | | the rushes | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in rush=Location | | 7 | **is a** | past | lying | a boat | | | | | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/16/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/16/44/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/16/)