The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 101

There were, unfortunately, no young girls to be found in the place where they lived; but the elder brothers agreed to go out into the world and seek for brides, promising to bring back a very pretty wife for the youngest also if he would meanwhile stay at home and take care of the house.

Who acts: young girls, brothers, elder brothers, maiden · What happens: be, find, live, agree, go out, seek · To what, where: place, world, pretty wife, home, care

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young girls, brothers, elder brothers, maiden), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 unfortunately	punct
4	unfortunately	unfortunately	ADV	_	2 were	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 girls	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 girls	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 girls	amod
8	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
9	to	to	PART	_	11 found	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 found	aux:pass
11	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 girls	acl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 place	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 place	det
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	obl
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 lived	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lived	nsubj
17	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 place	acl:relcl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 agreed	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 agreed	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 brothers	det
21	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 brothers	amod
22	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 agreed	nsubj
23	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 go	mark
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 agreed	xcomp
26	out	out	ADV	_	25 go	advmod
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 world	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 world	det
29	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 go	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 seek	cc
31	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 go	conj
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 brides	case
33	brides	bride	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 seek	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 promising	punct
35	promising	promise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 seek	advcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 bring	mark
37	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 promising	xcomp
38	back	back	ADV	_	37 bring	advmod
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 wife	det
40	very	very	ADV	_	41 pretty	advmod
41	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 wife	amod
42	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bring	obj
43	for	for	ADP	_	45 youngest	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 youngest	det
45	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	37 bring	obl
46	also	also	ADV	_	51 stay	advmod
47	if	if	SCONJ	_	51 stay	mark
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 stay	nsubj
49	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 stay	aux
50	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	51 stay	advmod
51	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 bring	parataxis
52	at	at	ADP	_	53 home	case
53	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 stay	obl
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 take	cc
55	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 stay	conj
56	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 take	obj
57	of	of	ADP	_	59 house	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 house	det
59	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 take	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	no young girls			there	unfortunately property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	to-infinitive · passive	no young girls not said here			the place		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»
3	live	past	brothers = brother					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	agree speech: agree	past	the elder brothers					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	go out not said to happen	to-infinitive	the elder brothers not said here			the world	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	seek	infinitive	the elder brothers not said here				for brides	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for bride=Theme
7	promise speech: promise	gerund	the elder brothers not said here					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	bring back not said to happen	to-infinitive	the elder brothers not said here		a pretty wife		for the youngest	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination
9	stay a condition, not said to happen	would	maiden			home	meanwhile property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
10	take	infinitive	maiden not said here	care			of the house	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of house=Initial_Location

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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