The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 69

And as the children ran they heard the sound of the broom sweeping the ground close behind them, so instantly they threw the handkerchief down over their shoulder, and in a moment a deep, broad river flowed behind them.

Who acts: children, broom · What happens: run, hear, sweep, throw down, flow · To what, where: sound, ground, handkerchief, shoulder, deep broad river

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, broom), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 heard	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 ran	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 children	det
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	advcl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sound	det
9	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 broom	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 broom	det
12	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sound	nmod
13	sweeping	sweep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 broom	acl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ground	det
15	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sweeping	obj
16	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 sweeping	advmod
17	behind	behind	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 close	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 threw	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	23 threw	advmod
21	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	23 threw	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 threw	nsubj
23	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 handkerchief	det
25	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 threw	obj
26	down	down	ADV	_	23 threw	advmod
27	over	over	ADP	_	29 shoulder	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 shoulder	nmod:poss
29	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 threw	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 moment	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 moment	cc
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 moment	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 moment	det
34	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	obl
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 river	det
36	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 river	amod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 deep	punct
38	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 river	amod
39	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 moment	appos
40	flowed	flow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 river	acl
41	behind	behind	ADP	_	42 them	case
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 flowed	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	the children					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	past	children = child	the sound of the broom		moment		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
3	sweep	gerund	the broom not said here	the ground			close property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Trajectory
4	throw down	past	children = child	the handkerchief	children's shoulder		down, instantly property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Theme over shoulder=Destination
5	flow	participle		a deep broad river not said here			behind children = child	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind they=Location

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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