The Red Fairy Book, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs., sentence 19

When his mother saw him enter the house she wept for joy, for she had feared that the fairies had carried him away, or that the Giant had found him.

Who acts: mother, Giant · What happens: see, enter, weep, fear, carry away, find · To what, where: Giant, house, fairies

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, Giant), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	obj
6	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 saw	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 enter	obj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wept	nsubj
10	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 house	acl:relcl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 joy	case
12	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wept	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 feared	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 feared	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 feared	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 feared	aux
17	feared	fear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 saw	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 carried	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fairies	det
20	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 carried	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 carried	aux
22	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 feared	advcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 carried	obj
24	away	away	ADV	_	22 carried	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 found	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 found	cc
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 found	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Giant	det
29	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 found	nsubj:pass
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 found	aux
31	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 carried	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 found	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	Giant's mother	Giant		tree rules
2	enter	infinitive	Giant not said here	the house		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination
3	weep	past	mother	the house not said here	for joy	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Theme
4	fear	past · perfect	mother			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	carry away	past · perfect · passive		the fairies	away property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Value
6	find	past · perfect · passive		the Giant		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme he=Attribute

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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