The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 125

The words were hardly out of his mouth when the stream swelled and overflowed till it reached the rock up which he had climbed, and dashed so far up it that the spray flew over him.

Who acts: words, stream, word, spray · What happens: be, swell, overflow, reach, climb, dash · To what, where: mouth, rock

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, stream, word, spray), 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 words	det
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 mouth	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 mouth	cop
4	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	8 mouth	advmod
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 mouth	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 mouth	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mouth	nmod:poss
8	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 swelled	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stream	det
11	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 swelled	nsubj
12	swelled	swell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 mouth	advcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 overflowed	cc
14	overflowed	overflow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 swelled	conj
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	17 reached	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 reached	nsubj
17	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 swelled	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rock	det
19	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 reached	obj
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 rock	compound:prt
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 climbed	nsubj:pass
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 climbed	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 climbed	aux
24	climbed	climb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 rock	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dashed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 dashed	cc
27	dashed	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 swelled	conj
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 far	advmod
29	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 dashed	advmod
30	up	up	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 far	obl
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 flew	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 spray	det
34	spray	spray	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 flew	nsubj
35	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 dashed	advcl
36	over	over	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 flew	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 mouth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the words		Luck's mouth	hardly property	tree rules
2	swell	past	the stream				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	overflow	past	the stream not said here				tree rules
4	reach	past	word	the rock			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent rock=Theme
5	climb	past · perfect · passive		the rock			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
6	dash	past	the stream not said here			far property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	fly	past	the spray			over Luck	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over he=Location

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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