--- title: Here he found a pretty stream which was different from other streams… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Here he found a pretty stream which was different from other streams as, instead of flowing, it stood still and began to talk: “Sir prince, tell me what brings you into these wilds? Who acts: Luck, pretty stream, Stream, Sir prince. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/2/78/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/2/) / 78 # The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 78 Here he found a pretty stream which was different from other streams as, instead of flowing, it stood still and began to talk: “Sir prince, tell me what brings you into these wilds? **Who acts:** Luck, pretty stream, Stream, Sir prince · **What happens:** find, be, flow, stand, begin, talk · **To what, where:** pretty stream, other streams, Sir prince, you, wilds · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (Luck, pretty stream, Stream, Sir prince), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2435:2:78 # text = Here he found a pretty stream which was different from other streams as, instead of flowing, it stood still and began to talk: “Sir prince, tell me what brings you into these wilds? 1 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 stream stream NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 streams stream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 as as ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 17 mark _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 15 fixed _ _ 17 flowing flow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 still still ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 27 “ " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 31 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 32 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 iobj _ _ 33 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 34 nsubj _ _ 34 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 ccomp _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 into into ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 38 det _ _ 38 wilds wild NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past | Luck | a pretty stream | | here | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stream=Topic | | 2 | **is** | past | a pretty stream | | | other streams | | different *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **flow** | gerund | Luck *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **stand** | past | Stream | | | | still | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **begin** | past | Stream *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **talk** | to-infinitive | Stream *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | Sir prince | | Sir prince *= prince* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | | 8 | **bring** *in a quote* | present | | you | | this wilds | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme into wild=Destination | 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/2/77/) - next →: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/2/79/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/2/)