The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 36

When the father was dying, he sent for his son and told him that he would soon be left alone in the world, with no possessions but the small cottage they lived in and a pear tree which grew behind it, and that, whether he liked it or not, he would have to work, or else he would starve.

Who acts: father, small cottage, pear tree · What happens: die, send, tell, leave, live in, grow · To what, where: father, world, pear tree, cottage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, small cottage, pear tree), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 dying	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 father	det
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dying	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dying	aux
5	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 sent	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dying	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sent	nsubj
8	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 son	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 son	nmod:poss
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sent	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sent	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 left	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 left	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 left	aux
18	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 left	advmod
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 left	aux:pass
20	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 told	ccomp
21	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 left	xcomp
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 world	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 world	det
24	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 left	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 possessions	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 possessions	case
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 possessions	det
28	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 left	obl
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 lived	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 cottage	det
31	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 cottage	amod
32	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lived	nsubj
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 lived	nsubj
34	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 left	conj
35	in	in	ADV	_	34 lived	advmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 tree	cc
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 tree	det
38	pear	pear	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 tree	compound
39	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lived	conj
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 grew	nsubj
41	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 tree	acl:relcl
42	behind	behind	ADP	_	43 it	case
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 grew	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 that	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 that	cc
46	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 grew	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 liked	punct
48	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	50 liked	mark
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 liked	nsubj
50	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 grew	parataxis
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 liked	obj
52	or	or	CCONJ	_	57 have	cc
53	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	57 have	advmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 have	punct
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 have	nsubj
56	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 have	aux
57	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 liked	conj
58	to	to	PART	_	59 work	mark
59	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 have	xcomp
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 starve	punct
61	or	or	CCONJ	_	65 starve	cc
62	else	else	ADV	_	65 starve	advmod
63	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 starve	nsubj
64	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	65 starve	aux
65	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 grew	advcl
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	die	past · progressive	the father					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	send	past	father				for father's son	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	father not said here		father			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	leave	would · passive		father		the world	with no possessions; alone, soon property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in world=Location
5	live in	past	the small cottage					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	grow	past	a pear tree	a pear tree		cottage		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind it=Location
7	like	past	father	cottage				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
8	not have	would	father					tree rules
9	work	to-infinitive	father not said here					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	starve	would	father				else property	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 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.

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