--- title: Meanwhile his next brother grew tired of staying at home, and let hi… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Meanwhile his next brother grew tired of staying at home, and let his parents have no rest till they had consented that he also should be given some food and some new boots, and go out to see the world. Who acts: next brother, parents. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crims --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/22/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/22/) / 5 # The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 5 Meanwhile his next brother grew tired of staying at home, and let his parents have no rest till they had consented that he also should be given some food and some new boots, and go out to see the world. **Who acts:** next brother, parents · **What happens:** grow, stay, let, have, consent, give · **To what, where:** home, rest, man, world This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next brother, parents), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2435:22:5 # text = Meanwhile his next brother grew tired of staying at home, and let his parents have no rest till they had consented that he also should be given some food and some new boots, and go out to see the world. 1 Meanwhile meanwhile ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 of of SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 staying stay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 17 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 18 det _ _ 18 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 till till SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 consented consent VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 acl:relcl _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 also also ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 26 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 advcl _ _ 29 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 30 det _ _ 30 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 34 det _ _ 33 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 boots boot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 38 out out ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 advcl _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | man's next brother | | | | | meanwhile, tired *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **stay** | gerund | man's next brother *not said here* | | | home | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | man's next brother *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | present | man's parents | no rest | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient | | 5 | **consent** | past · perfect | parents *= parent* | no rest *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **give** | should · passive | | man | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient food=Theme | | 7 | **go out** | infinitive | man's next brother *not said here* | | | | | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **see** | to-infinitive | man's next brother *not said here* | the world | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus | 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/22/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/22/6/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/22/)