The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 43

They began when he was quite young, and tired of staying at home with his father and mother.

Who acts: Tortoise, Tale · What happens: begin, be, stay · To what, where: home

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tortoise, Tale), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 young	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 young	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 young	cop
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 young	advmod
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 began	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tired	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tired	cc
10	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 began	parataxis
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 staying	mark
12	staying	stay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 tired	advcl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 home	case
14	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 staying	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 father	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 father	nmod:poss
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 staying	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 mother	cc
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 father	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Tortoise			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	past	Tale		young property	tree rules
3	stay	gerund	Tortoise not said here	home	with Tale's father and mother	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location

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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