--- title: The boy throve and grew big, and when he was too heavy for his nurse… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The boy throve and grew big, and when he was too heavy for his nurse to carry, a chair was made for him on little wheels, in which he could wander through the palace gardens without help; at other times he was carried about on a litter, and he was always carefully watched and guarded for fear he sho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/36/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Glass Mountain(16), part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/) / 36 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 36 The boy throve and grew big, and when he was too heavy for his nurse to carry, a chair was made for him on little wheels, in which he could wander through the palace gardens without help; at other times he was carried about on a litter, and he was always carefully watched and guarded for fear he should at any time put his feet to the ground. **Who acts:** boy throve, throve · **What happens:** grow, be, carry, make, wander, watch · **To what, where:** chair, little wheels, palace gardens, throve, litter, feet This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy throve, throve), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg640:25:36 # text = The boy throve and grew big, and when he was too heavy for his nurse to carry, a chair was made for him on little wheels, in which he could wander through the palace gardens without help; at other times he was carried about on a litter, and he was always carefully watched and guarded for fear he should at any time put his feet to the ground. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 throve throve NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 9 when when SCONJ WRB _ 13 mark _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 too too ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 advcl _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 nurse nurse NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 wheels wheel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 obl _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 wander wander VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 parataxis _ _ 35 through through ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 gardens garden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 39 without without ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ; ; PUNCT : _ 47 punct _ _ 42 at at ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obl _ _ 45 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 46 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux:pass _ _ 47 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 48 about about ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 49 on on ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 litter litter NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 54 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 58 nsubj _ _ 55 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 58 aux:pass _ _ 56 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 58 advmod _ _ 57 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 58 advmod _ _ 58 watched watch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 47 conj _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 60 guarded guard VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 64 advcl _ _ 61 for for ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 62 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 obl _ _ 63 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 64 nsubj _ _ 64 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 68 aux _ _ 65 at at ADP IN _ 67 case _ _ 66 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 67 det _ _ 67 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 obl _ _ 68 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 58 parataxis _ _ 69 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 70 nmod:poss _ _ 70 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 68 obj _ _ 71 to to ADP IN _ 73 case _ _ 72 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 73 det _ _ 73 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 74 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | the boy throve | | | | | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | throve | | | | | for throve's nurse; heavy *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **carry** | to-infinitive | throve *not said here* | | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | past · passive | | a chair | | little wheels | | for throve | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Material for he=Beneficiary | | 5 | **wander** | could | throve | | | the palace gardens | | without help | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Trajectory | | 6 | **carry** | past · passive | | throve | | a litter | time | about *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 7 | **watch** | past · passive | | throve | | | | always, carefully *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 8 | **guard** | participle | | | | | | for fear | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for fear=Beneficiary | | 9 | **put** | should | | throve's feet | | | | to the ground | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent foot=Goal | 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/37/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/)