The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 3

The clever sons were very fond of their mother, gave her good clothes, and always spoke pleasantly to her; but the youngest was always getting in her way, and she had no patience with him.

Who acts: clever sons, youngest, couple · What happens: be, give, speak, get, have · To what, where: good clothes, couple, way, patience · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clever sons, youngest, couple), 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 sons	det
2	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sons	amod
3	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fond	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fond	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 fond	advmod
6	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 mother	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fond	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gave	punct
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fond	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gave	iobj
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 clothes	amod
14	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	11 gave	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 spoke	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 spoke	cc
17	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	18 spoke	advmod
18	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gave	parataxis
19	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	_	18 spoke	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 spoke	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 getting	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 getting	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 youngest	det
25	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 getting	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 getting	aux
27	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	28 getting	advmod
28	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 gave	advcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 way	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 way	nmod:poss
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 getting	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 had	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 had	cc
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 had	nsubj
35	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fond	parataxis
36	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 patience	det
37	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 had	obj
38	with	with	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 patience	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the clever sons				of sons's mother; fond property	tree rules
2	give	past	the clever sons not said here	good clothes	couple			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clothes=Theme
3	speak speech: other	past			couple		always, pleasantly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent
4	get	past · progressive	the youngest			couple's way	always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	have	past	couple	no patience			with him = he	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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