The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 36

The boy throve and grew big, and when he was too heavy for his nurse to carry, a chair was made for him on little wheels, in which he could wander through the palace gardens without help; at other times he was carried about on a litter, and he was always carefully watched and guarded for fear he should at any time put his feet to the ground.

Who acts: boy throve, throve · What happens: grow, be, carry, make, wander, watch · To what, where: chair, little wheels, palace gardens, throve, litter, feet

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy throve, throve), 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	3 throve	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 throve	compound
3	throve	throve	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grew	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 grew	cc
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grew	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 heavy	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 heavy	cc
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 heavy	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heavy	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 heavy	cop
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 heavy	advmod
13	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grew	advcl
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 nurse	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 nurse	nmod:poss
16	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heavy	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 carry	mark
18	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 heavy	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 made	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 chair	det
21	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 made	aux:pass
23	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 grew	parataxis
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 made	obl
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 wheels	case
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 wheels	amod
28	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 made	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 wander	punct
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 which	case
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 wander	obl
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 wander	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 wander	aux
34	wander	wander	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 made	parataxis
35	through	through	ADP	_	38 gardens	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 gardens	det
37	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 gardens	compound
38	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 wander	obl
39	without	without	ADP	_	40 help	case
40	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wander	obl
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 carried	punct
42	at	at	ADP	_	44 times	case
43	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 times	amod
44	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 carried	obl
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 carried	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 carried	aux:pass
47	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 grew	parataxis
48	about	about	ADV	_	47 carried	advmod
49	on	on	ADP	_	51 litter	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 litter	det
51	litter	litter	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 carried	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 watched	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 watched	cc
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 watched	nsubj
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 watched	aux:pass
56	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	58 watched	advmod
57	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	58 watched	advmod
58	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 carried	conj
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 guarded	cc
60	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	64 should	advcl
61	for	for	ADP	_	62 fear	case
62	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 guarded	obl
63	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 should	nsubj
64	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	68 put	aux
65	at	at	ADP	_	67 time	case
66	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	67 time	det
67	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 should	obl
68	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 watched	parataxis
69	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	70 feet	nmod:poss
70	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	68 put	obj
71	to	to	ADP	_	73 ground	case
72	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	73 ground	det
73	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 put	obl
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the boy throve				big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	throve				for throve's nurse; heavy property	tree rules
3	carry	to-infinitive	throve not said here					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	make	past · passive		a chair	little wheels		for throve	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Material for he=Beneficiary
5	wander	could	throve		the palace gardens		without help	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Trajectory
6	carry	past · passive		throve	a litter	time	about property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	watch	past · passive		throve			always, carefully property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
8	guard	participle					for fear	vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for fear=Beneficiary
9	put	should		throve's feet			to the ground	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent foot=Goal

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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