The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 108

When their father returned the young ones told him what Paul had done, and he lost no time in flying after Paul, and asking how he could reward him for his goodness.

Who acts: father, young ones, Paul · What happens: return, tell, do, lose, fly, ask · To what, where: father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, young ones, Paul), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 returned	advmod
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 returned	nsubj
4	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ones	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ones	amod
7	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 done	obj
11	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 done	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 done	aux
13	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 told	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lost	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lost	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lost	nsubj
17	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	conj
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 time	det
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lost	obj
20	in	in	SCONJ	_	21 flying	mark
21	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 lost	advcl
22	after	after	ADP	_	23 Paul	case
23	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 flying	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 asking	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 asking	cc
26	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 told	advcl
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 reward	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 reward	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 reward	aux
30	reward	reward	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 asking	ccomp
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 reward	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 goodness	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 goodness	nmod:poss
34	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 reward	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	length's father					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the young ones		father			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do	past · perfect	Paul					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	lose	past	Paul			time		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	fly	gerund	Paul not said here			after Paul		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	ask speech: ask	gerund	the young ones not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	reward	could	Paul	father			for Paul's goodness	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for goodness=Attribute

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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