Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 4

So the older he grew the more careful she became, until at last she saw that it was impossible to restrain the Boy any longer, and it would be necessary for him to go out into the world to seek his fortune, just as other young men of his age had to do.

Who acts: Boy, Mother, other young men · What happens: grow, become, see, be, restrain, go out · To what, where: careful, last, Boy, world, fortune · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Found the Lost Turquoise.. 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, other young men), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 grew	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 older	det
3	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 grew	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grew	nsubj
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 careful	det
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 careful	advmod
8	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grew	obj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 became	nsubj
10	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grew	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
12	until	until	SCONJ	_	16 saw	mark
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 last	case
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 saw	obl
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 became	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 impossible	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 impossible	expl
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 impossible	cop
20	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 saw	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 restrain	mark
22	restrain	restrain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 impossible	csubj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Boy	det
24	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 restrain	obj
25	any	any	ADV	_	26 longer	advmod
26	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 restrain	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 necessary	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 necessary	cc
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 necessary	expl
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 necessary	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 necessary	cop
32	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grew	conj
33	for	for	SCONJ	_	36 go	mark
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 go	nsubj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 go	mark
36	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 necessary	advcl
37	out	out	ADV	_	36 go	advmod
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 world	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 world	det
40	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 go	obl
41	to	to	PART	_	42 seek	mark
42	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 go	advcl
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 fortune	nmod:poss
44	fortune	fortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 seek	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 had	punct
46	just	just	ADV	_	54 had	advmod
47	as	as	SCONJ	_	54 had	mark
48	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 men	amod
49	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 men	amod
50	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 had	nsubj
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 age	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 age	nmod:poss
53	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 men	nmod
54	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 seek	conj
55	to	to	PART	_	56 do	mark
56	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 had	xcomp
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Boy	the careful			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location careful=Theme
2	become	past	Mother				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	see	past	Mother		last		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past				impossible property	tree rules
5	restrain	to-infinitive		the Boy		long property	vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer boy=Eventuality
6	is	would	Boy not said here			necessary property	tree rules
7	go out	to-infinitive	Boy		the world	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	seek	to-infinitive	Boy not said here	Boy's fortune			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme
9	have	past	other young men of Boy's age				tree rules
10	do	to-infinitive	other young men of Boy's age not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 4