The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 94

When they were all grown up, the eldest told his father that he was tired of leading such a quiet life, and that he meant to go away and see the world.

Who acts: eldest, king · What happens: grow up, tell, be, lead, mean, go away · To what, where: men, father, quiet life, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest, king), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 grown	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grown	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grown	aux:pass
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 grown	advmod
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 grown	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 eldest	det
9	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 told	nsubj
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grown	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	iobj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 tired	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tired	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 tired	cop
16	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 told	ccomp
17	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 leading	mark
18	leading	lead	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 tired	advcl
19	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	22 life	det:predet
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 life	det
21	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 life	amod
22	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 leading	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 meant	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 meant	cc
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 meant	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 meant	nsubj
27	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 told	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 go	mark
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 meant	xcomp
30	away	away	ADV	_	29 go	advmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 see	cc
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 go	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 world	det
34	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 see	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	grow up	past · passive		men = man		all property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the eldest		king's father		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient
3	is	past	king			tired property	tree rules
4	lead	gerund	king not said here	such quiet life			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
5	mean	past	king				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	go away not said to happen	to-infinitive	king not said here			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	see	infinitive	king not said here	the world			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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