The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 2

The little Bunyip was carried home by its mother, and after that the waters sank back to their own channels.

Who acts: mother, waters · What happens: carry, sink back, channel · To what, where: little Bunyip

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, waters), 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	3 Bunyip	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Bunyip	amod
3	Bunyip	Bunyip	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 carried	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 carried	aux:pass
5	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 carried	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 mother	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carried	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sank	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sank	cc
12	after	after	SCONJ	_	16 sank	mark
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 sank	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 waters	det
15	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sank	nsubj
16	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 carried	parataxis
17	back	back	ADV	_	16 sank	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 channels	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 channels	nmod:poss
20	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 channels	amod
21	channels	channel	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sank	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	carry	past · passive	Bunyip's mother	the little Bunyip	home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	sink back	past	the waters		to waters's own channels	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	channel		waters = water			nom channel «communication transitive»: poss=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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