The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 66

So now there was only the youngest at home, and when the other two never came he also begged for a ship that he might go in search of his lost brothers.

Who acts: other two, head · What happens: be, not come, beg, go, lose, search · To what, where: home, search, lost brothers · 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 (other two, head), 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 youngest	advmod
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 was	advmod
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 youngest	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 youngest	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 youngest	det
7	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 home	case
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 youngest	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 begged	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 begged	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 came	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 two	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 two	amod
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 came	nsubj
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 came	advmod
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 begged	advcl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 begged	nsubj
19	also	also	ADV	_	20 begged	advmod
20	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 youngest	conj
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 ship	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 ship	det
23	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 begged	obl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 go	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 go	nsubj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 go	aux
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 begged	ccomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 search	case
29	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 go	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 brothers	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 brothers	nmod:poss
32	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 brothers	amod
33	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 search	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 youngest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past			home	young property	tree rules
2	not come	past	the other two				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	beg speech: request	past	head			for a ship	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	might	head		search of head's lost brothers		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location
5	lose	participle					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	search			head's lost brothers			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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