The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 25

Everyone knew stories of this terrible serpent, though no one had actually seen it; but from time to time a child strayed from home and never came back, and then mothers would forbid the other children to go near the river, which had juicy fruits and lovely flowers growing along its banks.

Who acts: Everyone, one, child, mothers, river, lovely flowers · What happens: know, see, stray, not come back, forbid, go · To what, where: stories, serpent, home, other children, river, juicy fruits

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everyone, one, child, mothers), 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	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 knew	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 serpent	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 serpent	det
6	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 serpent	amod
7	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stories	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seen	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 seen	mark
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seen	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seen	aux
13	actually	actually	ADV	_	14 seen	advmod
14	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 knew	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seen	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 strayed	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 strayed	cc
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 time	case
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 strayed	obl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 time	case
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 time	nmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 child	det
23	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 strayed	nsubj
24	strayed	stray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 knew	parataxis
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 home	case
26	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 strayed	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 came	cc
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 came	advmod
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 strayed	conj
30	back	back	ADV	_	29 came	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 forbid	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 forbid	cc
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 forbid	advmod
34	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 forbid	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 forbid	aux
36	forbid	forbid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 strayed	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 children	det
38	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 children	amod
39	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 forbid	obj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 go	mark
41	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 forbid	advcl
42	near	near	ADP	_	44 river	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 river	det
44	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 go	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 had	punct
46	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 had	nsubj
47	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 river	acl:relcl
48	juicy	juicy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 fruits	amod
49	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 had	obj
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 flowers	cc
51	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 flowers	amod
52	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 fruits	conj
53	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	52 flowers	acl
54	along	along	ADP	_	56 banks	case
55	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 banks	nmod:poss
56	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 growing	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	Everyone	stories of this terrible serpent				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
2	see	past · perfect	no one	serpent			actually property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	stray	participle	a child		home	time		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from home=Trajectory
4	not come back	past	a child not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	forbid	would	mothers	the other children		then		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer child=Theme
6	go	to-infinitive	mothers not said here		the river			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near river=Location
7	have	past	the river	juicy fruits and lovely flowers				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient
8	grow	gerund	lovely flowers not said here		serpent's banks			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along bank=Location

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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