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title: Sometimes both were carried rapidly down by the stream; sometimes on… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes both were carried rapidly down by the stream; sometimes only one leaf was carried off, and the other, after whirling slowly round and round on the edge of the current, would come circling back on an eddy to the hermit’s feet. Who acts: stream. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 26

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Sometimes both were carried rapidly down by the stream; sometimes only one leaf was carried off, and the other, after whirling slowly round and round on the edge of the current, would come circling back on an eddy to the hermit’s feet.

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**Who acts:** stream · **What happens:** carry, carry off, whirl, come, circle back · **To what, where:** both, one leaf, edge, eddy

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stream), 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:pg3282:33:26
# text = Sometimes both were carried rapidly down by the stream; sometimes only one leaf was carried off, and the other, after whirling slowly round and round on the edge of the current, would come circling back on an eddy to the hermit’s feet.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
2	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	advmod	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
17	off	off	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	whirling	whirl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
25	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	round	round	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	round	round	ADV	RB	_	26	conj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
38	circling	circle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	xcomp	_	_
39	back	back	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	eddy	eddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	’s	's	PART	POS	_	45	case	_	_
47	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past · passive | the stream | both |  |  |  | down, sometimes *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **carry off** | past · passive |  | one leaf |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **whirl** | gerund |  |  |  | the edge of the current |  | round, slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on edge=Trajectory |
| 4 | **come** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **circle back** | gerund |  |  |  | a eddy |  | to the hermit's feet | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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