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title: All but one young turtle, who, frightened at not seeing any of his f… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All but one young turtle, who, frightened at not seeing any of his friends come out again, went as fast as he could to a clump of bushes, and from there made his way to the river. Who acts: All. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, with its dependency t
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 67

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All but one young turtle, who, frightened at not seeing any of his friends come out again, went as fast as he could to a clump of bushes, and from there made his way to the river.

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**Who acts:** All · **What happens:** frighten, not see, come out, go, make · **To what, where:** one young turtle, any, way

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (All), 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:pg3282:12:67
# text = All but one young turtle, who, frightened at not seeing any of his friends come out again, went as fast as he could to a clump of bushes, and from there made his way to the river.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nsubj	_	_
2	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
13	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	out	out	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	clump	clump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	obl	_	_
36	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	parataxis	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frighten** | participle · passive |  | one young turtle |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **see** | gerund |  | any |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer any=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come out** | present | All |  |  |  | again | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **go** | past | All *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | participle |  | turtle's way |  |  |  | to the river | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset way=Product from there=Material |

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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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