The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 61
When they had grown so that they could go a long way from home, they would sometimes stay away too long, and the old woman would get frightened about them and would scold them when they came back.
Who acts: arrows · What happens: grow, go, stay away, frighten, scold, come back · To what, where: long way, old woman, arrows
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Star Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arrows), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 grown | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 grown | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grown | aux |
| 4 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 go | advcl |
| 5 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 9 go | mark |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 so | fixed |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 go | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | aux |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 way | amod |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 home | case |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 way | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stay | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stay | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 stay | aux |
| 18 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 stay | advmod |
| 19 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 go | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 stay | advmod |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 22 long | advmod |
| 22 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stay | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 frightened | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 frightened | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 woman | det |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 woman | amod |
| 27 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 frightened | aux |
| 29 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 frightened | aux:pass |
| 30 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 go | parataxis |
| 31 | about | about | ADP | _ | 32 them | case |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 frightened | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 scold | cc |
| 34 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 scold | aux |
| 35 | scold | scold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 frightened | conj |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 scold | obj |
| 37 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 39 came | advmod |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 came | nsubj |
| 39 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 scold | advcl |
| 40 | back | back | ADV | _ | 39 came | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past · perfect | arrows = arrow | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | could | arrows = arrow | a long way from home | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stay away | would | arrows = arrow | away, long, sometimes property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | frighten | would · passive | the old woman | about arrows = arrow | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | scold | would | arrows = arrow | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||||
| 6 | come back | past | arrows = arrow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Project Gutenberg book 66596 (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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