The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 81

The stream parted at once, and the prince walked through without wetting his feet; and directly he got to the other side he told his story as he had promised.

Who acts: stream, prince, Luck · What happens: part, walk through, wet, get, tell, promise · To what, where: feet, story · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (stream, prince, Luck), 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 stream	det
2	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 parted	nsubj
3	parted	part	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 parted	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 walked	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 walked	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prince	det
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walked	nsubj
10	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 parted	conj
11	through	through	ADV	_	10 walked	advmod
12	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 wetting	mark
13	wetting	wet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 walked	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 feet	nmod:poss
15	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 wetting	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 got	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 got	cc
18	directly	directly	ADV	_	20 got	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 got	nsubj
20	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 told	advcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 side	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 side	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 side	amod
24	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 got	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 told	nsubj
26	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 parted	parataxis
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 story	nmod:poss
28	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 told	obj
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 promised	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 promised	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 promised	aux
32	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 told	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 parted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	part	past	the stream			vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	walk through	past	the prince		through property	vn rehearse-26.8 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	wet	gerund	the prince not said here	Luck's feet		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent foot=Patient
4	get	past	Luck		to the other side result; directly property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to side=Result
5	tell speech: assert	past	Luck	Luck's story		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent story=Recipient clause=Topic
6	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	Luck			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: 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: «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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