The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 85

There was once a turtle who lived among a great many people of different kinds, in a large camp near a big river which was born right up amongst the snows, and flowed straight away south till it reached a sea where the water was always hot.

Who acts: turtle, river, water · What happens: be, live, bear, flow, reach · To what, where: large camp, big river, sea

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 (turtle, river, water), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 turtle	det
5	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 lived	nsubj
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 turtle	acl:relcl
8	among	among	ADP	_	12 people	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 people	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 people	amod
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 people	amod
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lived	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 kinds	case
14	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 kinds	amod
15	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 people	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 camp	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 camp	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 camp	det
19	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 camp	amod
20	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lived	obl
21	near	near	ADP	_	24 river	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 river	det
23	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 river	amod
24	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 camp	nmod
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 born	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 born	aux:pass
27	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 river	acl:relcl
28	right	right	ADV	_	29 up	advmod
29	up	up	ADV	_	27 born	advmod
30	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	32 snows	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 snows	det
32	snows	snow	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 born	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 flowed	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 flowed	cc
35	flowed	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
36	straight	straight	ADV	_	37 away	advmod
37	away	away	ADV	_	38 south	advmod
38	south	south	ADV	_	35 flowed	advmod
39	till	till	SCONJ	_	41 reached	mark
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 reached	nsubj
41	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 flowed	advcl
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 sea	det
43	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 reached	obj
44	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	49 hot	advmod
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 water	det
46	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 hot	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 hot	cop
48	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	49 hot	advmod
49	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 sea	acl:relcl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a turtle		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	past	a turtle		a large camp near a big river	among a great many people of different kinds	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in camp=Location
3	bear	past · passive		a big river		amongst the snows	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	flow	past				south property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	reach	past	river	a sea			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent sea=Theme
6	is	past	the water			always, hot property	tree rules

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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