The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 52

Now by the palace grounds there ran a brook, but instead of being a water-brook it was a milk-brook, and both rich and poor flocked to it daily and drew as much milk as they chose.

Who acts: palace grounds, brook, grounds · What happens: run, be, flock, draw, choose · To what, where: brook, milk brook, much milk

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palace grounds, brook, grounds), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 ran	advmod
2	by	by	ADP	_	5 grounds	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grounds	det
4	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grounds	compound
5	grounds	grounds	NOUN	Number=Ptan	7 ran	nsubj
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 grounds	advmod
7	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 brook	det
9	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ran	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 brook	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 brook	cc
12	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	18 brook	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	12 instead	fixed
14	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 brook	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 brook	det
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 brook	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 water	punct
18	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 brook	obl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 brook	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 brook	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 brook	det
22	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 brook	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 milk	punct
24	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ran	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 rich	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 rich	cc
27	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	28 rich	advmod
28	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ran	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 poor	cc
30	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 rich	conj
31	flocked	flock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 rich	xcomp
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 flocked	obl
34	daily	daily	ADV	_	31 flocked	advmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 drew	cc
36	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ran	conj
37	as	as	ADV	_	38 much	advmod
38	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 milk	amod
39	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 drew	obj
40	as	as	SCONJ	_	42 chose	mark
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 chose	nsubj
42	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 drew	advcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	the palace grounds	a brook		now		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme brook=Trajectory
2	is	gerund					instead a water brook	tree rules
3	is a	past	brook	a milk brook				tree rules
4	flock	participle	the palace grounds not said here		brook		daily property	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	draw	past	the palace grounds not said here	much milk				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme
6	choose	past	grounds					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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