The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 40

The youngest brother, who was wiser, would gladly have done some of the work that the others refused, but he was small and slight, and no one thought of offering him any.

Who acts: youngest brother, others, man, one thought · What happens: be, do, refuse, offer · To what, where: some, work, any, man

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest brother, others, man, one thought), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 done	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wiser	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 wiser	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wiser	cop
7	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 brother	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 brother	punct
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 done	aux
10	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	12 done	advmod
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 done	aux
12	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 done	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 work	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 work	det
16	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 some	nmod
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 refused	obj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 others	det
19	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 refused	nsubj
20	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 work	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 small	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 small	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 small	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 small	cop
25	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 done	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 slight	cc
27	slight	slight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 small	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 thought	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 thought	cc
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 thought	det
31	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 thought	compound
32	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 done	obl
33	of	of	SCONJ	_	34 offering	mark
34	offering	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 thought	acl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 offering	obj
36	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	34 offering	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the youngest brother			wise property	tree rules
2	do	would · perfect	the youngest brother	some		no one thought obl; gladly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Eventuality
3	refuse	past	the others	the work			vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
4	is	past	man			small property	tree rules
5	be		man not said here				tree rules
6	offer	gerund	no one thought not said here	any	man		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal any=Theme

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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