The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 22

The eldest brother, when he heard it, said to the other, ‘I think I will spend some of my money in trying to build that ship, as I should like to have the king for my father-in-law.’

Who acts: brother, eldest brother, I · What happens: hear, say, think, spend, try, build · To what, where: ship, other, some, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, eldest brother, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 brother	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 heard	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 heard	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 other	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 other	det
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 think	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 think	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 think	nsubj
17	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 spend	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 spend	aux
20	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 think	ccomp
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 spend	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 money	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 money	nmod:poss
24	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 some	nmod
25	in	in	SCONJ	_	26 trying	mark
26	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 spend	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 build	mark
28	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 trying	xcomp
29	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 ship	det
30	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 build	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 like	punct
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 like	mark
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 like	nsubj
34	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 like	aux
35	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 spend	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 have	mark
37	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 like	xcomp
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 king	det
39	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 have	obj
40	for	for	ADP	_	46 law	case
41	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 father	nmod:poss
42	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 law	nsubj
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 law	punct
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 law	case
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 in	punct
46	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 king	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
48	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	brother	ship			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the eldest brother		the other		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient
3	think speech: other	present	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	spend	future	I	some			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Asset
5	try	gerund	I not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	build not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	that ship			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ship=Product
7	like	should	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	the king		for law	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=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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