The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 59

At that moment more water came into the gutter; it streamed over the edges and washed the bit of bottle-glass away.

Who acts: more water, water · What happens: come, stream, wash · To what, where: gutter, edges, bit

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Story About a Darning-needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (more water, water), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 water	amod
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 gutter	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gutter	det
9	gutter	gutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 streamed	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 streamed	nsubj
12	streamed	stream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	parataxis
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 edges	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 edges	det
15	edges	edge	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 streamed	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 washed	cc
17	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 streamed	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bit	det
19	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 washed	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 glass	case
21	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 glass	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 bottle	punct
23	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bit	nmod
24	away	away	ADV	_	17 washed	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	more water		the gutter	moment		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into gutter=Initial_Location
2	stream	past	water		the edges			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over edge=Location
3	wash	past	water not said here	the bit of bottle glass			away property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=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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