--- title: Now the youngest son had not gone with the rest, but had stayed at h… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Now the youngest son had not gone with the rest, but had stayed at home with his mother; and when he heard that his brothers had been killed by the cat he said, ‘Let me go, that it may slay me also.’ Who acts: youngest son, cat, me, rest. 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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 (youngest son, cat, me, rest), 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:pg641:29:180 # text = Now the youngest son had not gone with the rest, but had stayed at home with his mother; and when he heard that his brothers had been killed by the cat he said, ‘Let me go, that it may slay me also.’ 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 amod _ _ 4 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 stayed stay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 ccomp _ _ 31 by by ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 Let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 ccomp _ _ 39 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 that that SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 slay slay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 conj _ _ 46 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ _ 47 also also ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **go** | past · perfect | the youngest son | | | | now | with the rest | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with rest=Beneficiary | | 2 | **stay** | past · perfect | the youngest son *not said here* | | | home with cat's mother | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | | 3 | **hear** | past | cat | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **kill** | past · perfect · passive | the cat | cat's brothers | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | cat | the cat *not said here* | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=Topic | | 6 | **let** | infinitive | | me | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **go** | infinitive | me *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **slay** | may | rest | me | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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 179](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/29/179/) - next →: [sentence 181](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/29/181/) - ↑ back to [The Nunda, Eater of People](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/29/)