The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 130

When they were half-way across, the stream rose so suddenly that it swept them all away.

Who acts: thieves, stream, way · What happens: be, rise, sweep away · To what, where: way, thieves

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 (thieves, stream, way), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 way	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 way	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 way	cop
4	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	6 way	advmod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 half	punct
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rose	obl
7	across	across	ADV	_	6 way	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stream	det
10	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rose	nsubj
11	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 suddenly	advmod
13	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	11 rose	advmod
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 swept	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 swept	nsubj
16	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 rose	advcl
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 swept	obj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 them	nmod:unmarked
19	away	away	ADV	_	16 swept	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	thieves = thief	way	across, half property	tree rules
2	rise	past	the stream		suddenly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sweep away	past	way	thieves = thief	away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location they=Theme

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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