Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 14

As the Boy grew up the mother was afraid that he, too, like his brothers, would want to leave his nest and go out into the world to live with his fellow-men.

Who acts: Boy, mother · What happens: grow up, be, want, leave, go out, live · To what, where: nest, world

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Mouse’s Three Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boy, mother), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 grew	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Boy	det
3	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 grew	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mother	det
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 afraid	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 afraid	cop
9	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grew	advcl
10	that	that	ADP	_	11 he	case
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 afraid	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 too	punct
13	too	too	ADV	_	9 afraid	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 brothers	punct
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 brothers	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 brothers	nmod:poss
17	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 afraid	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 want	punct
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 want	aux
20	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 grew	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 leave	mark
22	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 want	xcomp
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 nest	nmod:poss
24	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 leave	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 go	cc
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 leave	conj
27	out	out	ADV	_	26 go	advmod
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 world	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 world	det
30	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 go	obl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 live	mark
32	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 go	advcl
33	with	with	ADP	_	37 men	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 men	nmod:poss
35	fellow	fellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 men	amod
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 fellow	punct
37	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 live	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow up	past	the Boy				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the mother			that Boy; like Boy's brothers; afraid property	tree rules
3	want	would	the Boy not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Boy not said here	Boy's nest			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Theme
5	go out	infinitive	the Boy not said here		the world	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	live	to-infinitive	the Boy not said here			with Boy's fellow men	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with man=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: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 14

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 14