The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 76

The happy youth struck the water with his wand, and the waves at once parted and stood still, and the dwarf went on in front and crossed the stream.

Who acts: happy youth, waves, dwarf · What happens: strike, part, stand, go on, cross · To what, where: water, front, stream

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 (happy youth, waves, dwarf), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
2	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 youth	amod
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 struck	nsubj
4	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 struck	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 wand	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wand	nmod:poss
9	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 struck	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 parted	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 parted	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 waves	det
13	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 parted	nsubj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 once	case
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 waves	nmod
16	parted	part	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 struck	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 stood	cc
18	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 parted	conj
19	still	still	ADV	_	18 stood	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 went	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 went	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 dwarf	det
23	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 went	nsubj
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 struck	parataxis
25	on	on	ADP	_	24 went	compound:prt
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 front	case
27	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 went	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 crossed	cc
29	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 went	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 stream	det
31	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 crossed	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past	the happy youth	the water			with youth's wand	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent water=Patient with wand=Instrument
2	part	past	the waves					vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	stand	past	the waves not said here			still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go on	past	the dwarf		front			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in front=Location
5	cross	past	the dwarf not said here	the stream				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stream=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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