English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 12

The formula “youngest best,” in which the youngest of three brothers succeeds after the others have failed, is one of the most familiar in folk-tales amusingly parodied by Mr. Lang in his _Prince Prigio_.

Who acts: youngest, others · What happens: succeed, fail, be, parody · To what, where: one, folk tales

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, others), 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 formula	det
2	formula	formula	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 youngest	nsubj
3	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 youngest	punct
4	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 succeeds	nsubj
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 youngest	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 youngest	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 youngest	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 youngest	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 youngest	det
11	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 youngest	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 brothers	case
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 brothers	nummod
14	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 youngest	obl
15	succeeds	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	after	after	SCONJ	_	20 failed	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 others	det
18	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 failed	nsubj
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 failed	aux
20	failed	fail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 succeeds	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 one	punct
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 one	cop
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 succeeds	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 familiar	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 familiar	det
26	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	27 familiar	advmod
27	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 one	acl:relcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 tales	case
29	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tales	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 folk	punct
31	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 parodied	obl
32	amusingly	amusingly	ADV	_	33 parodied	advmod
33	parodied	parody	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 familiar	csubj
34	by	by	ADP	_	36 Lang	case
35	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Lang	nmod:desc
36	Lang	Lang	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 parodied	obl
37	in	in	ADP	_	41 Prigio	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 Prigio	nmod:poss
39	_	_	PUNCT	_	41 Prigio	punct
40	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Prigio	nmod:desc
41	Prigio	Prigio	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 parodied	obl
42	_	_	PUNCT	_	33 parodied	punct
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 succeeds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	succeed	present	youngest				vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fail	present · perfect	the others				vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	youngest not said here	one			tree rules
4	parody	participle			folk tales	by Lang Mr.; in formula's Prigio Prince; amusingly 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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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