The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 86

There were many other turtles in the camp, and this turtle was kind and pleasant to them all, but he did not care for any of them very much, and felt rather lonely.

Who acts: many other turtles, turtle, kind · What happens: be, not care, feel · To what, where: Turtle

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 (many other turtles, turtle, kind), 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 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 turtles	amod
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 turtles	amod
5	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 camp	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 camp	det
8	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turtles	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kind	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 kind	cc
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 turtle	det
12	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kind	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 kind	cop
14	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 were	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 pleasant	cc
16	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 kind	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pleasant	obl
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 them	nmod:unmarked
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 care	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 care	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 care	nsubj
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 care	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 care	advmod
25	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 kind	conj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 any	case
27	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	25 care	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 any	nmod
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 much	advmod
31	much	much	ADV	_	25 care	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 felt	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 felt	cc
34	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	conj
35	rather	rather	ADV	_	36 lonely	advmod
36	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 felt	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	many other turtles in the camp		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	this turtle			kind property	tree rules
3	be		this turtle not said here	Turtle			tree rules
4	not care	past · do-support	kind			for any	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for any=Theme
5	feel	past	many other turtles in the camp not said here			lonely property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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