The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 30

But the waters of the pond rose up suddenly, overflowed the bank where the couple stood, and dragged them under the flood.

Who acts: waters, couple · What happens: rise up, overflow, stand, drag · To what, where: bank, pond, flood

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 (waters, couple), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 rose	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 waters	det
3	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rose	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 pond	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pond	det
6	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waters	nmod
7	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 rose	compound:prt
9	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	7 rose	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 overflowed	punct
11	overflowed	overflow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rose	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bank	det
13	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 overflowed	obj
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 stood	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 couple	det
16	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stood	nsubj
17	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 bank	acl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dragged	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 dragged	cc
20	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 overflowed	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 dragged	obj
22	under	under	ADP	_	24 flood	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 flood	det
24	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dragged	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise up	past	the waters of the pond			suddenly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	overflow	past	the waters of the pond not said here	the bank			tree rules
3	stand	past	the couple				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drag	past	the waters of the pond not said here	pond	the flood		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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 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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