--- title: One day, when his father sat brooding over his lost children, Almas… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: One day, when his father sat brooding over his lost children, Almas came before him and said: “O father mine! the daughter of King Quimus has done my two brothers to death; I wish to avenge them upon her.” Who acts: father, Almas, daughter. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, Almas, daughter), 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:pg3282:2:14 # text = One day, when his father sat brooding over his lost children, Almas came before him and said: “O father mine! the daughter of King Quimus has done my two brothers to death; I wish to avenge them upon her.” 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 brooding brood VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 9 over over ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 12 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 Almas Almas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 16 before before ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 “ " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 O o INTJ UH _ 24 discourse _ _ 23 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 mine my PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ! ! PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 Quimus Quimus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 acl:relcl _ _ 33 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 39 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 avenge avenge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ _ 43 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 44 upon upon ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ” " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | past | prince's father | | | | day | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **brood** | gerund | prince's father *not said here* | | | | | over prince's lost children | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **lose** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **come** | past | Almas | | | | before prince | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location | | 5 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Almas *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **do** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the daughter of King Quimus | my two brothers | | | | to death | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Eventuality | | 7 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | Almas | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 8 | **avenge** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Almas *not said here* | father | | | | upon Almas | 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:** «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/15/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/)