The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 67

All but one young turtle, who, frightened at not seeing any of his friends come out again, went as fast as he could to a clump of bushes, and from there made his way to the river.

Who acts: All · What happens: frighten, not see, come out, go, make · To what, where: one young turtle, any, way

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (All), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 come	nsubj
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 turtle	cc
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 turtle	nummod
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 turtle	amod
5	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 All	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 frightened	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 frightened	nsubj:pass
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 frightened	punct
9	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 turtle	acl:relcl
10	at	at	SCONJ	_	12 seeing	mark
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 seeing	advmod
12	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 frightened	advcl
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 seeing	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 friends	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 friends	nmod:poss
16	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 any	nmod
17	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	out	out	ADV	_	17 come	advmod
19	again	again	ADV	_	17 come	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 come	conj
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 fast	advmod
23	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 went	advmod
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 could	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 could	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 fast	advcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 clump	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 clump	det
29	clump	clump	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 could	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 bushes	case
31	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 clump	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 made	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 made	cc
34	from	from	ADP	_	35 there	case
35	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 made	obl
36	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 come	parataxis
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 way	nmod:poss
38	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 made	obj
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 river	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 river	det
41	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 made	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	frighten	participle · passive		one young turtle			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	not see	gerund		any			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer any=Stimulus
3	come out	present	All		again	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	go	past	All not said here			fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	make	participle		turtle's way		to the river	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset way=Product from there=Material

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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