The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 42

There was one tortoise in particular that always managed to get the better of everybody, and many were the tales told in the forest of his great deeds.

Who acts: one tortoise · What happens: be, manage, get, tell · To what, where: one tortoise, many tales, forest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one tortoise), 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 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 tortoise	nummod
4	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 particular	case
6	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tortoise	nmod
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 managed	obj
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 managed	advmod
9	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tortoise	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 get	mark
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 managed	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 better	det
13	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 get	xcomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 everybody	case
15	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 better	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tales	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 tales	cc
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tales	amod
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tales	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tales	det
21	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 was	parataxis
22	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 tales	acl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 forest	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 forest	det
25	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 told	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 deeds	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 deeds	nmod:poss
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 deeds	amod
29	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 forest	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	one tortoise in particular		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	manage	past		one tortoise in particular		always property	tree rules
3	get	to-infinitive				good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past		the many tales			tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	participle		the many tales not said here	the forest of Tale's great deeds		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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