The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 25

'And when the children are grown up they can return to their father and set their mother free.'

What happens: grow up, return, set · To what, where: children, mother

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 return	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 return	cc
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 grown	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 children	det
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 grown	nsubj:pass
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 grown	aux:pass
7	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 return	nsubj
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 grown	compound:prt
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 return	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 return	aux
11	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 father	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 return	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 set	cc
16	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 return	conj
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mother	nmod:poss
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 set	obj
19	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 set	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 return	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 return	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow up	present · passive	the children		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	return	can		to children's father result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to father=Result
3	set	infinitive	children's mother	free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient mother=Result

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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