The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 126

On reaching the river he went to take a drink like his sister, but at that moment Ring and Snati sprang upon him, took the cloak from him, and threw him into the river.

Who acts: river, Ring · What happens: reach, go, take, spring, throw · To what, where: river, drink, cloak

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river, Ring), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 reaching	mark
2	reaching	reach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 went	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 river	det
4	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reaching	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 take	mark
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 went	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 drink	det
10	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obj
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 sister	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 sister	nmod:poss
13	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sprang	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 sprang	cc
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 moment	case
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 moment	det
18	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sprang	obl
19	Ring	Ring	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 sprang	nsubj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 Snati	cc
21	Snati	Snati	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Ring	conj
22	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sprang	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 took	punct
26	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 cloak	det
28	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 took	obj
29	from	from	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 took	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 threw	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 threw	cc
33	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 took	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 threw	obj
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 river	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 river	det
37	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 threw	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reach	gerund	river not said here	the river			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent river=Theme
2	go	past	river				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	to-infinitive	river not said here	a drink		like river's sister	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Theme
4	spring	past	Ring and Snati		moment	upon river	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Trajectory
5	take	past		the cloak		from river	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme from he=Initial_Location
6	throw	past		river		into the river result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into river=Result

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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