Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 8

Soon he came to a puddle of muddy water which reached from one side of the street to the other.

Who acts: beau, muddy water · What happens: come, reach · To what, where: puddle, one side

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Walter Raleigh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beau, muddy water), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 puddle	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 puddle	det
6	puddle	puddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 water	amod
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 puddle	nmod
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 reached	nsubj
11	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 water	acl:relcl
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 side	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 side	nummod
14	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reached	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 street	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 street	det
17	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 side	nmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 other	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 other	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 reached	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	beau			a puddle of muddy water		soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to puddle=Initial_Location
2	reach	past	muddy water			one side of the street		to the other	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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