The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 126

Now this man was no other than the father of the boy’s mother, who had fled away from his own kingdom for fear his grandson should find him and kill him after all.

Who acts: man, mother, grandson · What happens: be, flee away, find, kill · To what, where: own kingdom, man

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 (man, mother, grandson), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 other	advmod
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 other	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 other	cop
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 other	det
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 father	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 father	det
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 other	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 mother	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boy	det
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mother	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 boy	case
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 father	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fled	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 fled	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fled	aux
18	fled	flee	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 mother	acl:relcl
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 fled	advmod
20	from	from	ADP	_	23 kingdom	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 kingdom	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 kingdom	amod
23	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fled	obl
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 fear	case
25	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 kingdom	nmod
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 grandson	nmod:poss
27	grandson	grandson	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 find	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 find	aux
29	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 fled	parataxis
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 find	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 kill	cc
32	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 find	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 kill	obj
34	after	after	ADP	_	35 all	case
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 kill	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 other	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	this man			now	than the father of the boy's mother; other property	tree rules
2	flee away	past · perfect	the boy's mother		boy's own kingdom for fear		away property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from kingdom=Initial_Location
3	find	should	boy's grandson	man				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
4	kill	infinitive	boy's grandson not said here	man		after all		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 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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