Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 87

Then his six brothers said they would go and see what had become of him; and they went away, but they also did not return.

Who acts: six brothers, brothers · What happens: say, go, see, become, go away, not return · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (six brothers, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 brothers	nmod:poss
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 brothers	nummod
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 go	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 go	aux
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 see	cc
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 go	conj
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 become	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 become	aux
13	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 see	ccomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 become	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 went	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
20	away	away	ADV	_	19 went	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 return	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 return	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 return	nsubj
24	also	also	ADV	_	27 return	advmod
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 return	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 return	advmod
27	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 went	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Prince's six brothers	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	would	brothers = brother			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	infinitive	brothers = brother not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	become	past · perfect			of Prince	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	go away	past	brothers = brother		away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not return	past · do-support	brothers = brother			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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