The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 101

The twelve of them received as much gold and silver as they could carry, and betook themselves home to their old father.

Who acts: twelve, brothers · What happens: receive, carry, betake · To what, where: much gold, brothers

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (twelve, brothers), 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	2 twelve	det
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 received	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 twelve	nmod
5	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gold	amod
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 received	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 silver	cc
10	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gold	conj
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 carry	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 carry	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 carry	aux
14	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 received	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 betook	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 betook	cc
17	betook	betake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 received	conj
18	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 betook	obj
19	home	home	ADV	_	17 betook	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 father	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 father	nmod:poss
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 father	amod
23	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 betook	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	receive	past	the twelve of brothers	much gold and silver		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme
2	carry	could	brothers = brother			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	betake	past	the twelve of brothers not said here	brothers = brother	to brothers's old father; home property	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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