The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 16

So he took them home, and was very kind to them, and brought up the boy till he was a young man.

Who acts: man · What happens: take, be, bring up · To what, where: chest, boy, young 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), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	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 took	obj
5	home	home	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kind	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 kind	cc
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 kind	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 kind	advmod
10	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 took	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kind	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 brought	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 brought	cc
15	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 brought	compound:prt
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 boy	det
18	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 brought	obj
19	till	till	SCONJ	_	24 man	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 man	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 man	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 man	det
23	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 brought	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	man	chest		home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	is	past	man not said here		chest	kind property	tree rules
3	bring up	past	man not said here	the boy			vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent boy=Patient
4	is a	past	man	a young man			tree rules

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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