The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 39

One day the eldest brother, who had never done anything but amuse himself from sunrise to sunset, said to the rest, ‘Let us all work hard, and perhaps we shall grow rich, and be able to build ourselves a palace.’

Who acts: eldest brother, One day, we · What happens: not do, amuse, say, let, work, grow · To what, where: anything, Labros, us, ourselves · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest brother, One day, we), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brother	det
4	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 brother	amod
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 done	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 done	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 done	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 done	advmod
10	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 brother	acl:relcl
11	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 done	obj
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 amuse	cc
13	amuse	amuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 done	conj
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 amuse	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 sunrise	case
16	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 amuse	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 sunset	case
18	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sunrise	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 rest	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 rest	det
23	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Let	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 Let	punct
26	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
27	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 Let	obj
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 work	advmod
29	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 Let	advcl
30	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 work	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 grow	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 grow	cc
33	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	36 grow	advmod
34	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 grow	nsubj
35	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 grow	aux
36	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 Let	conj
37	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 grow	xcomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 able	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 able	cc
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 able	cop
41	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Let	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 build	mark
43	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 able	xcomp
44	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	43 build	obj
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 palace	det
46	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 build	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 Let	punct
48	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past · perfect	the eldest brother	anything			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
2	amuse	present	the eldest brother not said here	Labros	sunrise		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past	One day			to the rest	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to rest=Experiencer clause=Topic
4	let	infinitive		us			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
5	work	present				hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	grow	shall	we			perhaps, rich property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	infinitive				able property	tree rules
8	build	to-infinitive		ourselves			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset ourselves=Beneficiary palace=Product

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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