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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 61

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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.

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**Who acts:** arrows · **What happens:** grow, go, stay away, frighten, scold, come back · **To what, where:** long way, old woman, arrows

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66596:9:61
# text = 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.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
5	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	9	mark	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	advmod	_	_
19	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	too	too	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	get	get	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
31	about	about	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	scold	scold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	39	advmod	_	_
38	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
40	back	back	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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 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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