The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 26

Sometimes both were carried rapidly down by the stream; sometimes only one leaf was carried off, and the other, after whirling slowly round and round on the edge of the current, would come circling back on an eddy to the hermit’s feet.

Who acts: stream · What happens: carry, carry off, whirl, come, circle back · To what, where: both, one leaf, edge, eddy

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stream), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 carried	advmod
2	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 carried	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 carried	aux:pass
4	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	6 down	advmod
6	down	down	ADV	_	4 carried	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 stream	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stream	det
9	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carried	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 carried	punct
11	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 carried	advmod
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 one	advmod
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 leaf	nummod
14	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 carried	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 carried	aux:pass
16	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 carried	conj
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 carried	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 other	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 other	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 other	det
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 carried	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 whirling	punct
23	after	after	SCONJ	_	24 whirling	mark
24	whirling	whirl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 other	advcl
25	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	24 whirling	advmod
26	round	round	ADV	_	24 whirling	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 round	cc
28	round	round	ADV	_	26 round	conj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 edge	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 edge	det
31	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 whirling	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 current	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 current	det
34	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 edge	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 come	punct
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 come	aux
37	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 carried	conj
38	circling	circle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 come	xcomp
39	back	back	ADV	_	38 circling	advmod
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 eddy	case
41	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 eddy	det
42	eddy	eddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 circling	obl
43	to	to	ADP	_	47 feet	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 hermit	det
45	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 feet	nmod:poss
46	’s	's	PART	_	45 hermit	case
47	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 circling	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	past · passive	the stream	both		down, sometimes property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	carry off	past · passive		one leaf		sometimes property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	whirl	gerund			the edge of the current	round, slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on edge=Trajectory
4	come	would					tree rules
5	circle back	gerund			a eddy	to the hermit's feet	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

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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