The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 7

They got along quite well at first, but when they reached the middle of the river the swift current swept the raft downstream, farther and farther away from the road of yellow brick.

Who acts: Scarecrow, swift current · What happens: get along, reach, sweep · To what, where: middle, raft

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow, swift current), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	along	along	ADV	_	2 got	advmod
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 well	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 got	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 first	case
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 got	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 reached	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 reached	cc
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 reached	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 reached	nsubj
12	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 middle	det
14	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reached	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 river	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 river	det
17	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 middle	nmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 current	det
19	swift	swift	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 current	amod
20	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 swept	nsubj
21	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 reached	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 raft	det
23	raft	raft	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 swept	obj
24	downstream	downstream	ADV	_	21 swept	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 farther	punct
26	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 swept	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 farther	cc
28	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 away	advmod
29	away	away	ADV	_	26 farther	advmod
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 road	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 road	det
32	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 away	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 brick	case
34	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 brick	amod
35	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 road	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get along	past	Scarecrow		along, well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	reach	past	Scarecrow	the middle of the river		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent middle=Theme
3	sweep	past	the swift current	the raft	downstream, far property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme raft=Trajectory

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 Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Project Gutenberg book 55 (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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