More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 6

I should like to know how my two brothers were when you left them, and what they said to you about me."

Who acts: I, two brothers, brothers · What happens: like, know, be, say · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, two brothers, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 like	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 like	aux
3	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 know	mark
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 like	xcomp
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 left	advmod
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 brothers	nmod:poss
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 brothers	nummod
9	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 left	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 left	cop
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 left	advmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 left	nsubj
13	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	ccomp
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 left	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 what	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 what	cc
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 left	parataxis
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 what	acl:relcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 you	case
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 said	obl
22	about	about	ADP	_	23 me	case
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 said	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	like	should	I			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	is	past	my two brothers		leave property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	brothers = brother	you	about me	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient

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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