The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 59

At last the second son could bear it no longer, and said, ‘Dear father, give me, I pray you, a large ship and some money, and let me go and seek for my brother.’

Who acts: I, me · What happens: bear, say, give, pray, let, go · To what, where: news, me, you · 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 (I, me), 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	At	at	ADP	_	5 son	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 son	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 son	det
4	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 son	amod
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bear	obl
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 bear	aux
7	bear	bear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bear	obj
9	no	no	ADV	_	10 longer	advmod
10	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 bear	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bear	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 father	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 father	punct
16	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 father	amod
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 give	punct
19	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 bear	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 give	iobj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pray	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 pray	nsubj
23	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bear	parataxis
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 pray	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ship	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 ship	det
27	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ship	amod
28	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pray	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 money	cc
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 money	det
31	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ship	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 let	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 let	cc
34	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 pray	conj
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 let	obj
36	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 let	xcomp
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 seek	cc
38	seek	seek	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	34 let	conj
39	for	for	ADP	_	41 brother	case
40	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 brother	nmod:poss
41	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 seek	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bear	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 bear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	bear	could		news		at the last second son; long property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	give	infinitive			me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	pray	present	I	you		a large ship and some money obl	tree rules
5	let	infinitive	I not said here	me			tree rules
6	go	infinitive	me not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	seek	infinitive	I not said here			for my brother	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for brother=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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