The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 52

After the old man had bowed politely and taken farewell of them the eldest brother said to the rest, ‘I will go in search of the water of life, and the talking bird, and the tree of beauty.’

Who acts: old man, eldest brother, I · What happens: bow, take, say, go, search · To what, where: farewell, talking bird, search, water · 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 (old man, 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	6 bowed	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bowed	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bowed	aux
6	bowed	bow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 said	ccomp
7	politely	politely	ADV	_	6 bowed	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 taken	cc
9	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 bowed	conj
10	farewell	farewell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 taken	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 farewell	nmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 brother	det
14	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 brother	amod
15	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 rest	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rest	det
19	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 go	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 go	aux
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 search	case
26	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 water	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 water	det
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 search	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 life	case
31	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 water	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 bird	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 bird	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 bird	det
35	talking	talking	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bird	compound
36	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 tree	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 tree	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 tree	det
40	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	ccomp
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 beauty	case
42	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 tree	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	40 tree	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	40 tree	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bow	past · perfect	the old man			politely property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	participle	the old man not said here	farewell of flowers			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farewell=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the eldest brother			to the rest	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to rest=Experiencer clause=Topic
4	go	future	I	the talking bird	search of the water of life		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location
5	search			the water of life			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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