The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 86

The brothers were not very willing to set out again, but the two eldest consented because it gave them another chance, and they started as before.

Who acts: brothers, kingdom · What happens: not be, set out, consent, give, start · To what, where: two, chance, brothers

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, kingdom), 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	2 brothers	det
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 willing	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 willing	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 willing	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 willing	advmod
6	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 set	mark
8	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 willing	xcomp
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 set	compound:prt
10	again	again	ADV	_	8 set	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 consented	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 consented	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 two	det
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 consented	nsubj:pass
15	eldest	eld	ADV	Degree=Sup	16 consented	advmod
16	consented	consent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 willing	conj
17	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 gave	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gave	nsubj
19	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 consented	advcl
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gave	iobj
21	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	22 chance	det
22	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gave	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 started	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 started	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 started	nsubj
26	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 willing	conj
27	as	as	ADP	_	28 before	case
28	before	before	ADV	_	26 started	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 willing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the brothers				willing property	tree rules
2	set out	to-infinitive	the brothers not said here			again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	consent	participle · passive		the two			eld property	tree rules
4	give	past	kingdom	another chance	brothers = brother			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient chance=Theme
5	start	past	brothers = brother					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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