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title: There were many other turtles in the camp, and this turtle was kind… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There were many other turtles in the camp, and this turtle was kind and pleasant to them all, but he did not care for any of them very much, and felt rather lonely. Who acts: many other turtles, turtle, kind. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, with it
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 86

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There were many other turtles in the camp, and this turtle was kind and pleasant to them all, but he did not care for any of them very much, and felt rather lonely.

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**Who acts:** many other turtles, turtle, kind · **What happens:** be, not care, feel · **To what, where:** Turtle

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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 (many other turtles, turtle, kind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg3282:11:86
# text = There were many other turtles in the camp, and this turtle was kind and pleasant to them all, but he did not care for any of them very much, and felt rather lonely.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	turtles	turtle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	_
30	very	very	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	much	much	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
35	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | many other turtles in the camp |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | this turtle |  |  |  |  | kind *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | this turtle *not said here* |  | Turtle |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **care** | past · do-support | kind |  |  |  |  | for any | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for any=Theme |
| 5 | **feel** | past | many other turtles in the camp *not said here* |  |  |  |  | lonely *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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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