The Red Fairy Book, The Six Sillies, sentence 8

The father who had stayed upstairs with the young man was surprised that neither his wife nor his daughter came back, and in his turn went down to look for them.

Who acts: father, wife · What happens: stay, be, come back, go down, look

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 (father, wife), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 father	det
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 surprised	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 stayed	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stayed	aux
5	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 father	acl:relcl
6	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	5 stayed	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 man	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stayed	obl
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 surprised	cop
12	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 came	mark
14	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	16 wife	det
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wife	nmod:poss
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	nsubj
17	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	19 daughter	cc
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 daughter	nmod:poss
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wife	conj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 surprised	advcl
21	back	back	ADV	_	20 came	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 went	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 went	cc
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 turn	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 turn	nmod:poss
26	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 went	obl
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 surprised	conj
28	down	down	ADV	_	27 went	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 look	mark
30	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 went	advcl
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 look	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stay	past · perfect	the father	with the young man; upstairs property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with man=Location
2	is	past	the father	surprised property	tree rules
3	come back	past	man's wife nor man's daughter		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go down	past	the father not said here	in man's turn; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in turn=Attribute
5	look	to-infinitive	the father not said here	for wife	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for they=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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