The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 103

The two brothers said nothing about what they had promised, neither at that time nor later on when the queen’s third son came, a beautiful boy, whom she loved more than anything else in the world.

Who acts: two brothers, third son, queen · What happens: say, promise, come, love · To what, where: nothing, princes, beautiful boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two brothers, third son, queen), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brothers	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 brothers	nummod
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 said	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 what	case
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 nothing	nmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 promised	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 promised	aux
10	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 what	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 time	punct
12	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	15 time	cc:preconj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 time	case
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 time	det
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
16	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	17 later	cc
17	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 came	advmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	17 later	compound:prt
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 came	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 queen	det
21	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 son	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 queen	case
23	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 son	amod
24	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	nsubj
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 time	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 boy	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 boy	det
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 boy	amod
29	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 time	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 loved	punct
31	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 loved	obj
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 loved	nsubj
33	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 boy	acl:relcl
34	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 loved	obj
35	than	than	ADP	_	36 anything	case
36	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	34 more	obl
37	else	else	ADV	_	36 anything	advmod
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 world	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 world	det
40	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 anything	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the two brothers	nothing		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	promise speech: promise	past · perfect · passive		princes = prince		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme
3	come	past	the queen's third son		late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	love	past	queen	a beautiful boy		tree rules

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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