The Red Fairy Book, The Six Sillies, sentence 15

As neither mother nor daughter nor father came upstairs again, the lover grew impatient, and went down into the cellar to see what they could all be doing.

Who acts: mother, lover, names · What happens: come, grow, go down, see, do · To what, where: cellar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, lover, names), 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 mother	case
2	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	3 mother	det
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
4	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	5 daughter	cc
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mother	conj
6	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	7 father	cc
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mother	conj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	again	again	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 grew	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lover	det
13	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grew	nsubj
14	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	parataxis
15	impatient	impatient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 grew	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 went	cc
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 grew	conj
19	down	down	ADV	_	18 went	advmod
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 cellar	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cellar	det
22	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 see	mark
24	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 went	advcl
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 doing	obj
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 doing	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 doing	aux
28	all	all	ADV	_	30 doing	advmod
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 doing	aux
30	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 see	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	neither mother nor daughter nor father		again	upstairs property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past	the lover			impatient property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go down	past	the lover not said here	the cellar		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	see	to-infinitive	the lover not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	do	could · progressive	names = name			all property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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