The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 21

They had a great deal of trouble and worry with him too; but he throve and grew very quickly, and before he was a year old he could run about and talk.

Who acts: parents, boy · What happens: have, throve, grow, be, run about, talk · To what, where: great deal, trouble

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, boy), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 deal	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 deal	amod
5	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 trouble	case
7	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 deal	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 worry	cc
9	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trouble	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 worry	nmod
12	too	too	ADV	_	9 worry	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 throve	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 throve	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 throve	nsubj
16	throve	throve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 grew	cc
18	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 throve	conj
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 quickly	advmod
20	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	18 grew	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 old	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 old	cc
23	before	before	ADP	_	27 year	case
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 year	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 year	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 year	det
27	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 old	obl:unmarked
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	parataxis
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 run	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 run	aux
31	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 old	parataxis
32	about	about	ADV	_	31 run	advmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 talk	cc
34	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 run	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	parents = parent	a great deal of trouble and worry with boy			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient
2	throve	past	boy				tree rules
3	grow	past	boy not said here			quickly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	boy		before a year		tree rules
5	run about	could	boy			about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	talk	infinitive	boy not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	deal			trouble and worry with boy			nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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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