The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 46

Then they came to a stream of rushing water; but the little man drew out a wand and touched the waves, whereupon the waters parted and stood still, and the two crossed the river with dry feet.

Who acts: rocks, little man, waters, two · What happens: come, rush, draw out, touch, part, stand · To what, where: stream, wand, waves, river

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rocks, little man, waters, two), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 stream	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stream	det
6	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 water	amod
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stream	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 drew	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 drew	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drew	nsubj
15	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 drew	compound:prt
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 wand	det
18	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drew	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 touched	cc
20	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 drew	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 waves	det
22	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 touched	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 parted	punct
24	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	27 parted	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 waters	det
26	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 parted	nsubj
27	parted	part	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 waves	acl:relcl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 stood	cc
29	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 parted	conj
30	still	still	ADV	_	29 stood	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 crossed	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 crossed	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 two	det
34	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 crossed	nsubj
35	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 river	det
37	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 crossed	obj
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 feet	case
39	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 feet	amod
40	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 crossed	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	rocks = rock		a stream of rushing water	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stream=Initial_Location
2	rush	gerund						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	draw out	past	the little man	a wand				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=Theme
4	touch	past	the little man not said here	the waves				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wave=Co-Theme
5	part	past	the waters				whereupon property	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	stand	past	the waters not said here			still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	cross	past	the two	the river			with dry feet	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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