The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 39

‘Do not cry, dearest mother; I will go and seek my brothers till I find them.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: not cry, go, seek, find · To what, where: dearest mother, brothers

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 cry	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 cry	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 cry	advmod
4	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mother	punct
6	dearest	dear	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 mother	amod
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cry	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 go	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cry	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 seek	cc
13	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 go	conj
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 brothers	nmod:poss
15	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 seek	obj
16	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 find	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 find	nsubj
18	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 seek	advcl
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 find	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cry	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 cry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not cry speech: express	imperative · do-support	you not said here	dearest mother	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Topic
2	go	future	I		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	seek	infinitive	I not said here	my brothers	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme
4	find	present	I	brothers = brother	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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