The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 74

Then they told their father all that they had suffered, and he was so angry with their step-mother that he drove her out of the house, and never let her return; but he and the children lived happily together; and he took care of them himself, and never let a stranger come near them.

Who acts: twins, dog, mother, stranger · What happens: tell, suffer, be, drive, not let, return · To what, where: father, mother, house, care, stranger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (twins, dog, mother, stranger), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 told	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 suffered	det:predet
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 suffered	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 suffered	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 suffered	aux
10	suffered	suffer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 told	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 angry	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 angry	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 angry	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 angry	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 angry	advmod
16	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 told	parataxis
17	with	with	ADP	_	21 mother	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mother	nmod:poss
19	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mother	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 step	punct
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 angry	obl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 drove	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 drove	nsubj
24	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 mother	acl:relcl
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 drove	obj
26	out	out	ADP	_	29 house	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 house	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 house	det
29	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drove	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 let	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 let	cc
32	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 let	advmod
33	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	ccomp
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 let	obj
35	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 let	xcomp
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 lived	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 lived	cc
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 lived	nsubj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 children	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 children	det
41	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 he	conj
42	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
43	happily	happily	ADV	_	42 lived	advmod
44	together	together	ADV	_	42 lived	advmod
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 took	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 took	cc
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 took	nsubj
48	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
49	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 took	obj
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 them	case
51	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 took	obl
52	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	48 took	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 let	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 let	cc
55	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	56 let	advmod
56	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	ccomp
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 stranger	det
58	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 let	obj
59	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 let	xcomp
60	near	near	ADP	_	61 them	case
61	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 come	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	twins = twin		twins's father		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic
2	suffer	past · perfect	twins = twin						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	dog					with twins's step mother; angry property	tree rules
4	drive	past	dog	mother		the house			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme out house=Trajectory
5	not let	infinitive		mother					tree rules
6	return	infinitive	mother not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	live	past	dog					happily, together property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	take	past	dog	care				of twins = twin; dog obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of they=Initial_Location
9	not let	infinitive		a stranger					tree rules
10	come	infinitive	a stranger not said here					near twins = twin	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near they=Location

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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