The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 58

In an instant there poured forth such a stream of milk that it ran like a river into the hut.

Who acts: stream · What happens: pour, run · To what, where: stream, instant, hut

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stream), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 instant	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 instant	det
3	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poured	obl
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 poured	advmod
5	poured	pour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	forth	forth	ADV	_	5 poured	advmod
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	9 stream	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stream	det
9	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poured	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 milk	case
11	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stream	nmod
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 ran	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ran	nsubj
14	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 poured	advcl
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 river	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 river	det
17	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ran	obl
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 hut	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hut	det
20	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ran	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 poured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	participle		such stream of milk		a instant; there		forth property	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stream=Patient
2	run	past	stream			the hut		like a river	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hut=Destination

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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