The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 43

Now we must go back to the King’s son after he had been put in charge of the nurse.

Who acts: we · What happens: go back, put, charge · To what, where: Giant, charge, nurse

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 go	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 son	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 son	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 King	case
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	15 put	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 put	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 put	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 put	aux:pass
15	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 go	advcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 charge	case
17	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 nurse	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 nurse	det
20	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 charge	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	must	we			now	to the King's son result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to son=Result
2	put	past · perfect · passive		Giant	charge of the nurse			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in charge=Destination
3	charge			the nurse				nom charge «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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