The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 110

There he left them, and there they were found by the man and woman who had met him at home beside the sea, and had helped him to start on his journey.

Who acts: boy, man · What happens: leave, find, meet, help, start, journey · To what, where: shoes, boy, home, journey

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, man), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 left	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 left	nsubj
3	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 left	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 found	cc
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 found	expl
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 found	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 found	aux:pass
10	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 left	conj
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 man	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 woman	cc
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 man	conj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 met	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 met	aux
18	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 man	acl:relcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 met	obj
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 home	case
21	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 met	obl
22	beside	beside	ADP	_	24 sea	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sea	det
24	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 home	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 helped	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 helped	cc
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 helped	aux
28	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 left	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 helped	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 start	mark
31	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 helped	xcomp
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 journey	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 journey	nmod:poss
34	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 start	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	leave	past	boy	shoes = shoe	there	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	find	past · passive	the man and woman	shoes = shoe	there	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic
3	meet	past · perfect	the man and woman	boy	home beside the sea	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
4	help	past · perfect	boy not said here	boy		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme
5	start	to-infinitive	boy not said here		boy's journey	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	journey		boy			nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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