More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 136
"Yes, I am the youngest of the three brothers, and I should like to get them to go back with."
Who acts: young son, brothers · What happens: be, like, get, go back · To what, where: brothers
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young son, brothers), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 youngest | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 youngest | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 youngest | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 youngest | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 youngest | det |
| 7 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 brothers | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brothers | det |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 brothers | nummod |
| 11 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 youngest | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 like | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 like | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 like | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 like | aux |
| 16 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 youngest | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 get | mark |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 like | xcomp |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 get | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 go | mark |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 get | xcomp |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 go | advmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 go | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 like | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 youngest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | my young son = son | of the three brothers; young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | like in a quote | should | my young son = son | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | my young son = son not said here | brothers = brother | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go back in a quote | to-infinitive | brothers = brother not said here | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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