The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 38

At last his next brother told the emperor that he likewise would go out to hunt, and that perhaps he would find some clue as to his brother’s disappearance.

Who acts: Dragon, brother · What happens: tell, go out, hunt, find, disappear · To what, where: emperor, clue · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dragon, brother), 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	At	at	ADP	_	5 brother	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brother	amod
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 brother	nmod:poss
4	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brother	amod
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 emperor	det
8	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	iobj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 go	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 go	nsubj
11	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	13 go	advmod
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 go	aux
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	ccomp
14	out	out	ADV	_	13 go	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 hunt	mark
16	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 go	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 find	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 find	cc
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 perhaps	mark
20	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	23 find	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 find	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 find	aux
23	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	conj
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 clue	det
25	clue	clue	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 find	obj
26	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	31 disappearance	case
27	to	to	ADP	_	26 as	fixed
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 brother	nmod:poss
29	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 disappearance	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 brother	case
31	disappearance	disappearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 find	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past			the emperor	at Dragon's last next brother	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent emperor=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go out	would	Dragon			likewise, out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hunt	to-infinitive	Dragon not said here				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	find	would	Dragon	some clue		as Dragon's brother's disappearance; perhaps property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent clue=Theme as disappearance=Attribute
5	disappear		Dragon's brother				nom disappearance «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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