The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 14

Soon she heard a rushing sound, and a big wave rose suddenly and swept the comb off the bank, and a minute after the head of her husband rose from the pond and gazed sadly at her.

Who acts: wife, minute · What happens: hear, rush, sweep, rise, gaze · To what, where: rushing sound, comb, bank, pond

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, minute), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 heard	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sound	det
5	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 sound	amod
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rose	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rose	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 rose	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rose	amod
11	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rose	compound
12	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	conj
13	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	12 rose	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 swept	cc
15	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 comb	det
17	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 swept	obj
18	off	off	ADP	_	20 bank	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bank	det
20	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 swept	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 rose	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 rose	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 minute	det
24	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rose	nsubj
25	after	after	ADP	_	27 head	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 head	det
27	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 minute	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 husband	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 husband	nmod:poss
30	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 head	nmod
31	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 pond	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 pond	det
34	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rose	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 gazed	cc
36	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 rose	conj
37	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	36 gazed	advmod
38	at	at	ADP	_	39 her	case
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 gazed	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	wife	a rushing sound		soon property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
2	rush	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sweep	past	wife not said here	the comb	the bank		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent comb=Theme off bank=Trajectory
4	rise	past	a minute after the head of wife's husband		the pond		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from pond=Initial_Location
5	gaze	past	a minute after the head of wife's husband not said here			at wife; sadly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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