The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 58

And they went home with him and served him all the days of their lives, for they said that he only who had proved himself brave and faithful was fit to be king.

Who acts: brothers, prince, brave · What happens: go, serve, say, prove, be · To what, where: prince, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, prince, brave), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 went	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 served	cc
8	served	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 served	obj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 days	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 days	det
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 served	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 lives	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 lives	nmod:poss
15	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 days	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 said	mark
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	8 served	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 proved	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 proved	nsubj
22	only	only	ADV	_	25 proved	advmod
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 proved	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 proved	aux
25	proved	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 said	ccomp
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 proved	obj
27	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fit	nsubj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 faithful	cc
29	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 brave	conj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 fit	cop
31	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 proved	ccomp
32	to	to	PART	_	34 king	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 king	cop
34	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fit	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	brothers = brother			with prince; home property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary
2	serve	past	brothers = brother not said here	prince	day		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute
3	say speech: assert	past	brothers = brother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	prove	past · perfect	prince	prince			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
5	is	past	brave			fit property	tree rules
6	is a	to-infinitive	brave not said here	king			tree rules

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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