The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 65

But when the Bad One was in the midst of the stream, the boy wished it to become small; and the Bad One fell into the water and was drowned, and the world was rid of him.

Who acts: Bad One, boy, world · What happens: be, wish, become, fall, drown · To what, where: midst, water

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bad One, boy, world), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 when	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 One	det
4	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 One	amod
5	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 midst	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 midst	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 midst	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 midst	det
9	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 when	parataxis
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 stream	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stream	det
12	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 midst	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wished	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boy	det
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wished	nsubj
16	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 midst	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wished	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 become	mark
19	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wished	advcl
20	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 become	xcomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 fell	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fell	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 One	det
24	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 One	amod
25	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fell	nsubj
26	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wished	parataxis
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 water	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 water	det
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fell	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 drowned	cc
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 drowned	aux:pass
32	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 fell	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 rid	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 rid	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 world	det
36	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 rid	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 rid	cop
38	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 drowned	conj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 rid	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 when	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Bad One		the midst	of the stream	tree rules
2	wish	past	the boy	midst			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
3	become	to-infinitive	the boy not said here			small property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	fall	past	the Bad One			into the water result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result
5	drown	past · passive	the Bad One not said here				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»
6	is	past	the world			of boy; rid property	tree rules

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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