The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 88

Luckily a tiny stream ran close by and some water was soon procured, but no sooner had he tasted it than he sprang from his carriage and disappeared in a moment.

Who acts: tiny stream, stream · What happens: run, procure, taste, spring, disappear · To what, where: water, carriage

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tiny stream, 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	Luckily	luckily	ADV	_	5 ran	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stream	det
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stream	amod
4	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 ran	advmod
7	by	by	SCONJ	_	13 procured	mark
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 procured	cc
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 water	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 procured	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 procured	aux:pass
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 procured	advmod
13	procured	procure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ran	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tasted	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 tasted	cc
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 sooner	det
17	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 tasted	advmod
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 tasted	aux
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 tasted	nsubj
20	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 tasted	obj
22	than	than	SCONJ	_	24 sprang	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sprang	nsubj
24	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 tasted	advcl
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 carriage	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 carriage	nmod:poss
27	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sprang	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 disappeared	cc
29	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sprang	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 moment	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 moment	det
32	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 disappeared	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	a tiny stream				close, luckily property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	procure	past · passive		some water			soon property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	taste	past	stream	water			soon property	vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute
4	spring	past	stream		stream's carriage			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from carriage=Trajectory
5	disappear	past	stream not said here			moment		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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