The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 107

But she said: “I fear my husband is dead, but my little boy is still very young; I will stay here and teach him to grow up to be a clever man, and when he is old enough he shall go out into the world and seek news of his father.

Who acts: Balna, husband, little boy · What happens: say, fear, be, stay, teach, grow up · To what, where: husband, clever man, world, news · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, 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 (Balna, husband, little boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 fear	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 fear	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 fear	nsubj
7	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 husband	nmod:poss
9	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dead	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 dead	cop
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fear	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 young	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 young	cc
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 boy	nmod:poss
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 boy	amod
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 young	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 young	cop
18	still	still	ADV	_	20 young	advmod
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 young	advmod
20	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fear	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 stay	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 stay	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 stay	aux
24	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 fear	conj
25	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 stay	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 teach	cc
27	teach	teach	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 stay	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 teach	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 grow	mark
30	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 teach	xcomp
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 grow	compound:prt
32	to	to	PART	_	36 man	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 man	cop
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 man	det
35	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 man	amod
36	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 grow	advcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 go	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 go	cc
39	when	when	SCONJ	_	42 old	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 old	nsubj
41	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 old	cop
42	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 go	advcl
43	enough	enough	ADV	_	42 old	advmod
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 go	nsubj
45	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 go	aux
46	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
47	out	out	ADV	_	46 go	advmod
48	into	into	ADP	_	50 world	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 world	det
50	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 go	obl
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 seek	cc
52	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 go	conj
53	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 seek	obj
54	of	of	ADP	_	56 father	case
55	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 father	nmod:poss
56	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 news	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Balna						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fear in a quote	present	Balna						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is in a quote	present	my husband					dead property	tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	my little boy				still	young property	tree rules
5	stay in a quote	future	Balna			here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	teach speech: other in a quote	infinitive	Balna not said here		husband				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
7	grow up in a quote	to-infinitive	Balna not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is a in a quote	to-infinitive	Balna not said here	a clever man					tree rules
9	is in a quote	present	husband					enough, old property	tree rules
10	go out in a quote	shall	husband			the world		out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	seek in a quote	infinitive	husband not said here	news of husband's father					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme

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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 107