The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 39

But the two brothers did not love Ciccu any better because he had succeeded when they hoped he would have failed, and one day they spoke to the king.

Who acts: two brothers, Ciccu, brothers · What happens: not love, succeed, hope, fail, speak · To what, where: Ciccu · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. 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, Ciccu, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 love	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brothers	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 brothers	nummod
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 love	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 love	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 love	advmod
7	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 love	obj
9	any	any	ADV	_	10 better	advmod
10	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 Ciccu	acl:relcl
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 succeeded	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 succeeded	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 succeeded	aux
14	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 love	advcl
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 hoped	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hoped	nsubj
17	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 succeeded	advcl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 failed	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 failed	aux
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 failed	aux
21	failed	fail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 hoped	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 spoke	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 spoke	cc
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 day	nummod
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 spoke	obl:unmarked
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 spoke	nsubj
27	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 love	parataxis
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 king	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 king	det
30	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 spoke	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 love	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not love	past · do-support	the two brothers	Ciccu			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ciccu=Stimulus
2	succeed	past · perfect	Ciccu				vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hope	past	brothers = brother				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	fail	would · perfect	Ciccu				vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	speak speech: other	past	brothers = brother		day	to the king	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to king=Co-Agent

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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