The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 101

The turtles, who were tired of doing nothing, agreed at once, and next day the whole tribe left the camp.

Who acts: turtles, whole tribe · What happens: be, do, agree, leave · To what, where: nothing, turtles, camp

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (turtles, whole tribe), 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	2 turtles	det
2	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 agreed	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tired	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 tired	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tired	cop
6	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 turtles	amod
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 doing	mark
8	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 tired	advcl
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 doing	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 agreed	punct
11	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 once	case
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 agreed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 left	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 left	cc
16	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 day	amod
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 left	obl:unmarked
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tribe	det
19	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tribe	amod
20	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 left	nsubj
21	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 agreed	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 camp	det
23	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 left	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the turtles			tired property	tree rules
2	do	gerund	the turtles not said here	nothing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
3	agree speech: agree	participle · passive		the turtles			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic
4	leave	past	the whole tribe	the camp	day		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camp=Theme

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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