The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 48

There was once a rich merchant who had three sons, and when they were grown up the eldest said to him, ‘Father, I wish to travel and see the world.

Who acts: rich merchant, eldest, I · What happens: be, have, grow up, say, wish, travel · To what, where: three sons, latter, merchant, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich merchant, eldest, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 said	advcl
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 merchant	det
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 merchant	amod
6	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 merchant	acl:relcl
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 sons	nummod
10	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 had	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 grown	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 grown	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 grown	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 grown	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 grown	aux:pass
16	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 said	ccomp
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 grown	compound:prt
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 eldest	det
19	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Father	punct
24	‘	‘	ADP	_	25 Father	case
25	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 wish	vocative
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wish	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 wish	nsubj
28	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 said	ccomp
29	to	to	PART	_	30 travel	mark
30	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 wish	xcomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 see	cc
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 travel	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 world	det
34	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 see	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a rich merchant			there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a rich merchant	three sons				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	grow up	past · passive		latter				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	the eldest		merchant			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
5	wish	present	I				Father vocative	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	travel not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	see	infinitive	I not said here	the world				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus

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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