The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 96

The youngest now came to him, and offered to go in search of his brothers and to bring the bird Grip; he was quite certain that he would succeed in this.

Who acts: youngest, king · What happens: come, offer, go, bring, be, succeed · To what, where: king, search, bird Grip, this, brothers

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, king), 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 youngest	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 came	nsubj
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 came	advmod
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 offered	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 offered	cc
9	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 came	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 go	mark
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 offered	xcomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 search	case
13	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 brothers	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 brothers	nmod:poss
16	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 search	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 bring	cc
18	to	to	PART	_	19 bring	mark
19	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 go	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Grip	det
21	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Grip	compound
22	Grip	grip	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bring	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 certain	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 certain	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 certain	cop
26	quite	quite	ADV	_	27 certain	advmod
27	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 succeed	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 succeed	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 succeed	aux
31	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 certain	advcl
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 this	case
33	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 succeed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the youngest		king		now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
2	offer	participle	the youngest not said here						tree rules
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	the youngest not said here			search of king's brothers			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location
4	bring	to-infinitive	the youngest not said here	the bird Grip					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent grip=Theme
5	is	past	king					certain property	tree rules
6	succeed	would	king			this			vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in this=Eventuality
7	search			king's brothers					nom search «act transitive»: of=patient

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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