The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 35

She carried him down, and then hurried with loud protestations to the youth’s father.

Who acts: wife · What happens: carry down, hurry · To what, where: husband

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 carried	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hurried	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hurried	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 hurried	advmod
8	hurried	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 carried	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 protestations	case
10	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 protestations	amod
11	protestations	protestation	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hurried	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	16 father	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 youth	det
14	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 father	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 youth	case
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hurried	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry down	past	wife	husband					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	hurry	past	wife not said here				then	with loud protestations; to the youth's father result	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to father=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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