The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 32

But they were not able to remain together, for the water tore them apart, and when the flood was over they both resumed their own shapes again, but the hunter and the hunter’s wife found themselves each in a strange country, and neither knew what had become of the other.

Who acts: frog, water, flood, hunter, neither · What happens: not be, remain, tore, be, find, know · To what, where: frog, strange country · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (frog, water, flood, hunter), 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	_	5 able	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 able	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 able	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 able	advmod
5	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 remain	mark
7	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 able	xcomp
8	together	together	ADV	_	7 remain	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tore	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 tore	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 water	det
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tore	nsubj
13	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 remain	parataxis
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tore	obj
15	apart	apart	ADV	_	13 tore	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 resumed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 resumed	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 resumed	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 flood	det
20	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 resumed	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 resumed	cop
22	over	over	SCONJ	_	25 resumed	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 resumed	nsubj
24	both	both	ADV	_	25 resumed	advmod
25	resumed	resume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 able	conj
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 shapes	nmod:poss
27	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 shapes	amod
28	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 resumed	obj
29	again	again	ADV	_	25 resumed	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 found	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 found	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 hunter	det
33	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 found	nsubj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 wife	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 hunter	det
36	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wife	nmod:poss
37	’s	's	PART	_	36 hunter	case
38	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hunter	conj
39	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 resumed	parataxis
40	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	39 found	obj
41	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	40 themselves	appos
42	in	in	ADP	_	45 country	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 country	det
44	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 country	amod
45	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 found	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 knew	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 knew	cc
48	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	49 knew	nsubj
49	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 found	conj
50	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	52 become	nsubj
51	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 become	aux
52	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	49 knew	ccomp
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 other	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 other	det
55	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 become	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	frog				able property	tree rules
2	remain	to-infinitive	frog not said here				together property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tore	past	the water	frog			apart property	tree rules
4	is	past	the flood			again	both, resume property	tree rules
5	find	past	the hunter and the hunter's wife	frog	a strange country			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic
6	know	past	neither					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	become	past · perfect					of the other	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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