The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 22

She had gone with her infant son, who was only two or three months old, to visit her old nurse, who lived in the valley; and she had been detained all night there by a storm.

Who acts: Beanstalk, infant son, old nurse, storm · What happens: go, be, visit, live, detain · To what, where: old nurse, valley, Beanstalk

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beanstalk, infant son, old nurse, storm), 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	3 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gone	aux
3	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 son	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 son	nmod:poss
6	infant	infant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 son	amod
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gone	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 old	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 old	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 old	cop
11	only	only	ADV	_	15 months	advmod
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 months	nummod
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 three	cc
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 two	conj
15	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 old	obl:unmarked
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 son	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 visit	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 visit	mark
19	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 old	conj
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 nurse	nmod:poss
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 nurse	amod
22	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 visit	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lived	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 lived	nsubj
25	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 nurse	acl:relcl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 valley	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 valley	det
28	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lived	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 detained	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 detained	cc
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 detained	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 detained	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 detained	aux:pass
34	detained	detain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 gone	conj
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 night	det
36	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 detained	obl:unmarked
37	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 detained	advmod
38	by	by	ADP	_	40 storm	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 storm	det
40	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 detained	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	Beanstalk				with Beanstalk's infant son	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with son=Beneficiary
2	is	past	Beanstalk's infant son			month	old property	tree rules
3	visit	to-infinitive	Beanstalk's infant son not said here	Beanstalk's old nurse				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nurse=Co-Agent
4	live	past	Beanstalk's old nurse		the valley			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in valley=Location
5	detain	past · perfect · passive	a storm	Beanstalk	there	night		vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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