--- title: The clever sons were very fond of their mother, gave her good clothe… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The clever sons were very fond of their mother, gave her good clothes, and always spoke pleasantly to her; but the youngest was always getting in her way, and she had no patience with him. Who acts: clever sons, youngest, couple. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship( --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/35/3/) [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 Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Flying Ship(24)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/35/) / 3 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 3 The clever sons were very fond of their mother, gave her good clothes, and always spoke pleasantly to her; but the youngest was always getting in her way, and she had no patience with him. **Who acts:** clever sons, youngest, couple · **What happens:** be, give, speak, get, have · **To what, where:** good clothes, couple, way, patience · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clever sons, youngest, couple), 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:pg640:35:3 # text = The clever sons were very fond of their mother, gave her good clothes, and always spoke pleasantly to her; but the youngest was always getting in her way, and she had no patience with him. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 fond fond ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 iobj _ _ 13 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 18 advmod _ _ 18 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 19 pleasantly pleasantly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 28 nsubj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 28 advmod _ _ 28 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 36 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 37 det _ _ 37 patience patience NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the clever sons | | | | | of sons's mother; fond *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **give** | past | the clever sons *not said here* | good clothes | couple | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clothes=Theme | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | | | couple | | | always, pleasantly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent | | 4 | **get** | past · progressive | the youngest | | | couple's way | | always *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **have** | past | couple | no patience | | | | with him *= he* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Patient | 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/35/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/35/4/) - ↑ back to [The Flying Ship(24)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/35/)