The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 32

And the youth told him how his father had turned him out of his house because he was so lazy and stupid, and he needed shelter for the night.

Who acts: youth, father · What happens: tell, turn, need · To what, where: help, house, shelter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, father), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 told	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 turned	advmod
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turned	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 turned	aux
10	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	ccomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 turned	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 house	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 house	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 house	nmod:poss
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turned	obl
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 lazy	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lazy	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lazy	aux
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 lazy	advmod
20	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 turned	advcl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 stupid	cc
22	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 lazy	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 needed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 needed	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 needed	nsubj
26	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
27	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 needed	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 night	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 night	det
30	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 needed	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the youth		help			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	turn	past · perfect	help's father	help		help's house		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme out house=Trajectory
3	need	past	father	shelter			night	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot shelter=Theme

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.

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