--- title: Then round the bend of the stream came fifteen huge whales, which he… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then round the bend of the stream came fifteen huge whales, which he ordered to place themselves heads to tails, like stepping stones, so that he could jump from one to the other till he landed on the opposite shore. Who acts: you, bend. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/11/66/) [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 Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [The Brown Fairy Book, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/11/) / 66 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 66 Then round the bend of the stream came fifteen huge whales, which he ordered to place themselves heads to tails, like stepping stones, so that he could jump from one to the other till he landed on the opposite shore. **Who acts:** you, bend · **What happens:** round, come, order, step, jump, land · **To what, where:** fifteen huge whales, opposite shore This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bend), 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:pg3282:11:66 # text = Then round the bend of the stream came fifteen huge whales, which he ordered to place themselves heads to tails, like stepping stones, so that he could jump from one to the other till he landed on the opposite shore. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 round round VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 bend bend NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 stream stream NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 9 fifteen fifteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 10 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 obj _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 17 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 17 nmod:unmarked _ _ 19 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 xcomp _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 like like ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 stepping step VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 amod _ _ 25 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 31 mark _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 fixed _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 jump jump VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 obl _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 nmod _ _ 37 till till SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 landed land VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 opposite opposite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **round** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | then | | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | past | the bend of the stream | fifteen huge whales | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whale=Theme | | 3 | **order** | past | bend | fifteen huge whales | | | | to tails and stepping stones | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | | 4 | **step** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **jump** | could | bend | | | | | from one to the other | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from one=Trajectory | | 6 | **land** | past | bend | | | the opposite shore | | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on shore=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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/11/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/11/67/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/11/)