The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 66

Then round the bend of the stream came fifteen huge whales, which he ordered to place themselves heads to tails, like stepping stones, so that he could jump from one to the other till he landed on the opposite shore.

Who acts: you, bend · What happens: round, come, order, step, jump, land · To what, where: fifteen huge whales, opposite shore

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 (you, bend), 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	2 round	advmod
2	round	round	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bend	det
4	bend	bend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 stream	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stream	det
7	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bend	nmod
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 round	ccomp
9	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 whales	nummod
10	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 whales	amod
11	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 came	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ordered	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 ordered	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ordered	nsubj
15	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 whales	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	19 heads	mark
17	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heads	compound
18	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	17 place	nmod:unmarked
19	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ordered	xcomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 tails	case
21	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ordered	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stones	punct
23	like	like	ADP	_	25 stones	case
24	stepping	step	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 stones	amod
25	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 tails	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 jump	punct
27	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	31 jump	mark
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 so	fixed
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 jump	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 jump	aux
31	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 round	conj
32	from	from	ADP	_	33 one	case
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 jump	obl
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 other	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 other	det
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 one	nmod
37	till	till	SCONJ	_	39 landed	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 landed	nsubj
39	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 jump	advcl
40	on	on	ADP	_	43 shore	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 shore	det
42	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 shore	amod
43	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 landed	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 round	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	round	imperative	you not said here			then		tree rules
2	come	past	the bend of the stream	fifteen huge whales				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whale=Theme
3	order	past	bend	fifteen huge whales			to tails and stepping stones	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
4	step	gerund						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	jump	could	bend				from one to the other	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from one=Trajectory
6	land	past	bend		the opposite shore			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on shore=Destination

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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