--- title: At last the second son could bear it no longer, and said, ‘Dear fath… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At last the second son could bear it no longer, and said, ‘Dear father, give me, I pray you, a large ship and some money, and let me go and seek for my brother.’ Who acts: I, me. 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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 (I, me), 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:pg5615:24:59 # text = At last the second son could bear it no longer, and said, ‘Dear father, give me, I pray you, a large ship and some money, and let me go and seek for my brother.’ 1 At at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 amod _ _ 5 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 6 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 bear bear VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 no no ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 Dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 give give VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 20 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 pray pray VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 31 det _ _ 31 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 35 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 seek seek VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bear** | could | | news | | | | at the last second son; long *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **give** | infinitive | | | me | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 4 | **pray** | present | I | you | | | | a large ship and some money *obl* | tree rules | | 5 | **let** | infinitive | I *not said here* | me | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | infinitive | me *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **seek** | infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | for my brother | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for brother=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:** «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/24/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/24/60/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/24/)