The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 94

The father of the rescued children was so delighted over the death of his enemy that he told the youth to get on his back, and in this way he carried him up to the world above.

Who acts: father, eye, enemy · What happens: rescue, be, tell, get, carry up, die · To what, where: death, youth, back, wind, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, eye, enemy), 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	9 delighted	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 children	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 children	det
5	rescued	rescue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 children	amod
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 father	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 delighted	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 delighted	advmod
9	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 death	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 death	det
12	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 delighted	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 enemy	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 enemy	nmod:poss
15	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 death	nmod
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 told	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	nsubj
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 delighted	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 youth	det
20	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 told	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 get	mark
22	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 told	ccomp
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 back	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 back	nmod:poss
25	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 get	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 carried	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 carried	cc
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 way	case
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 way	det
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 carried	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 carried	nsubj
32	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 delighted	parataxis
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 carried	obj
34	up	up	ADP	_	32 carried	compound:prt
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 world	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 world	det
37	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 carried	obl
38	above	above	ADV	_	32 carried	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rescue	participle					vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the father of the rescued children		the death of eye's enemy	delighted property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past	eye	the youth			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent youth=Recipient clause=Topic
4	get not said to happen	to-infinitive			eye's back		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on back=Source
5	carry up	past	eye	wind	this way	to the world; above property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to world=Destination
6	die		eye's enemy				nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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