The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 42
His youngest son wished to go in search of his brothers, but for long the emperor refused to listen to him, lest he should lose him also.
Who acts: youngest son, emperor · What happens: wish, go, refuse, not listen, lose, search · To what, where: youngest son, search, emperor, son, brothers
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 (youngest son, emperor), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 son | nmod:poss |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 son | amod |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 refused | nsubj |
| 4 | wished | wish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 son | acl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wished | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 search | case |
| 8 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 brothers | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 search | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 refused | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 refused | cc |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 long | case |
| 15 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 refused | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 emperor | det |
| 17 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 refused | nsubj |
| 18 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 listen | mark |
| 20 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 refused | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 listen | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 lose | punct |
| 24 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 27 lose | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 lose | nsubj |
| 26 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 lose | aux |
| 27 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 listen | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 lose | obj |
| 29 | also | also | ADV | _ | 27 lose | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | participle | son's youngest son not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | search of son's brothers | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location | |||||
| 3 | refuse | past | son's youngest son | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not listen | to-infinitive | son's youngest son not said here | emperor | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lose | should | emperor | son | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | search | son's brothers | nom search «act transitive»: of=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: «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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