The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 68

His only thought was to get away as far as possible from that dreadful hut; so he let the river carry him where it was going itself, and at last, one day, he found himself in the warm sea, where, if he is not dead, you may meet him still.

Who acts: only thought, turtle, river, thought, you · What happens: be, let, carry, go, find, not be · To what, where: river, turtle, last

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 (only thought, turtle, river, thought), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 thought	nmod:poss
2	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thought	amod
3	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj:outer
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 get	cop
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 far	advmod
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 get	advmod
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 possible	mark
11	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 far	advcl
12	from	from	ADP	_	15 hut	case
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 hut	det
14	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hut	amod
15	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 far	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 let	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	19 let	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 let	nsubj
19	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 get	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 river	det
21	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 let	obj
22	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 let	xcomp
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 carry	obj
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 going	advmod
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 going	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 going	aux
27	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 carry	advcl
28	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 going	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 found	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 found	cc
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 last	case
32	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 found	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 last	punct
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 day	nummod
35	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 last	obl:unmarked
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 last	punct
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 found	nsubj
38	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 let	conj
39	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 found	obj
40	in	in	ADP	_	43 sea	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 sea	det
42	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 sea	amod
43	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 found	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 where	punct
45	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	43 sea	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 dead	punct
47	if	if	SCONJ	_	51 dead	mark
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 dead	nsubj
49	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 dead	cop
50	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 dead	advmod
51	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 found	advcl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 meet	punct
53	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	55 meet	nsubj
54	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 meet	aux
55	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 get	conj
56	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 meet	obj
57	still	still	ADV	_	55 meet	advmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	turtle's only thought				away, far, get property	tree rules
2	let	past	turtle	the river				tree rules
3	carry	infinitive	the river not said here	turtle				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	go	past · progressive	thought	river				vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location itself=Theme
5	find	past	turtle	turtle	last		in the warm sea	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at last=Asset
6	not is a condition, not said to happen	present	turtle				dead property	tree rules
7	meet	may	you	turtle		still		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
8	think		turtle					nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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