The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 51

The rivers and streams filled up, and there was no need for him to go back to the pool, near the home of his enemy, the puma, as there was a large number of places for him to choose from.

Who acts: river · What happens: fill up, be, go back, choose · To what, where: rivers, need, home, large number

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rivers	det
2	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 filled	nsubj:pass
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 streams	cc
4	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rivers	conj
5	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 need	advcl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 filled	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 was	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 was	cc
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 need	cop
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 need	det
12	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 go	mark
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 go	nsubj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 go	mark
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 number	advcl
17	back	back	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 pool	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 pool	det
20	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 home	punct
22	near	near	ADP	_	24 home	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 home	det
24	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 enemy	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 enemy	nmod:poss
27	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 home	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 puma	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 puma	det
30	puma	puma	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 enemy	appos
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 was	punct
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 was	mark
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 was	expl
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 number	cop
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 number	det
36	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 number	amod
37	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 need	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 places	case
39	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 number	nmod
40	for	for	SCONJ	_	43 choose	mark
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 choose	nsubj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 choose	mark
43	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 places	acl
44	from	from	ADP	_	43 choose	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 need	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fill up	participle · passive		the rivers and streams			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	is a	past		no need			tree rules
3	go back	to-infinitive	river		the home of river's enemy	to the pool result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to pool=Result
4	is a	past		a large number		of places	tree rules
5	choose	to-infinitive	river				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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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