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title: The father who had stayed upstairs with the young man was surprised… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The father who had stayed upstairs with the young man was surprised that neither his wife nor his daughter came back, and in his turn went down to look for them. Who acts: father, wife. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Sillies, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Six Sillies, sentence 8

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The father who had stayed upstairs with the young man was surprised that neither his wife nor his daughter came back, and in his turn went down to look for them.

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**Who acts:** father, wife · **What happens:** stay, be, come back, go down, look

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, wife), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:28:8
# text = The father who had stayed upstairs with the young man was surprised that neither his wife nor his daughter came back, and in his turn went down to look for them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	stayed	stay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
14	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	19	cc	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
21	back	back	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
27	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
28	down	down	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past · perfect | the father |  |  |  |  | with the young man; upstairs *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with man=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | the father |  |  |  |  | surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come back** | past | man's wife nor man's daughter |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go down** | past | the father *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in man's turn; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in turn=Attribute |
| 5 | **look** | to-infinitive | the father *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for wife | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for they=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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