The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 44

I had six brothers, who went away to find brides for themselves and one for me; but they have never come home, so now I am going to look for them.’

Who acts: I, six brothers, flowers · What happens: have, go away, find, not come, go, look · To what, where: six brothers, brides

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, six brothers, flowers), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 brothers	nummod
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brothers	acl:relcl
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 find	mark
10	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 went	xcomp
11	brides	bride	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 find	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 themselves	case
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 brides	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 one	cc
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 brides	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 one	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 come	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 come	nsubj
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
22	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 come	advmod
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	conj
24	home	home	ADV	_	23 come	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 going	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	30 going	advmod
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 going	advmod
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 going	nsubj
29	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 going	aux
30	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 had	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 look	mark
32	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 going	xcomp
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 look	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 going	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	I	six brothers			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient
2	go away	past	six brothers			away property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	find	to-infinitive	six brothers not said here	brides		for flowers = flower	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bride=Theme for themselves=Beneficiary
4	not come	present	flowers = flower			home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go	present · progressive	I		now		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	look	to-infinitive	I not said here			for flowers = flower	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for they=Theme

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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