The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 80

There were other young men too, who bore different names, though not one of them was called “Hábogi,” and these thought that they might perhaps gain the heart of the youngest.

Who acts: other young men, these, men · What happens: be, bear, call, think, gain · To what, where: different names, one, heart · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other young men, these, men), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 men	amod
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 men	amod
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
6	too	too	ADV	_	2 were	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bore	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 bore	nsubj
9	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	conj
10	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 names	amod
11	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bore	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 called	punct
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	19 called	mark
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 one	advmod
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 called	nsubj:pass
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 one	nmod
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 called	aux:pass
19	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 bore	parataxis
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 Hábogi	punct
21	Hábogi	Hábogi	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 called	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Hábogi	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 Hábogi	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 thought	cc
25	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 thought	nsubj
26	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 called	conj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 gain	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 gain	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 gain	aux
30	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	31 gain	advmod
31	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 thought	ccomp
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 heart	det
33	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gain	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 youngest	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 youngest	det
36	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 heart	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	other young men		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bear	past		different names			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient
3	call	past · passive		one of men			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	think speech: other	past	these				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	gain	might	men = man	the heart of the youngest		perhaps property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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