Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 33

They did not leave behind them wealth, they left behind them far less than people had believed they possessed; what there was went to families distantly related to them, of whom, till then, no one had ever heard.

Who acts: children, people, one · What happens: not leave, leave, believe, possess, go, hear · To what, where: wealth, less, families · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Grave-stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, people, one), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 leave	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 leave	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 leave	advmod
4	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	behind	behind	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 leave	obl
7	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leave	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 left	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 left	nsubj
10	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 leave	advcl
11	behind	behind	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 left	obl
13	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 less	advmod
14	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 left	obl
15	than	than	SCONJ	_	18 believed	mark
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 believed	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 believed	aux
18	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 less	advcl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 possessed	nsubj
20	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 believed	ccomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 went	nsubj
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 was	expl
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 what	acl:relcl
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 leave	parataxis
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 families	case
27	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 went	obl
28	distantly	distantly	ADV	_	29 related	advmod
29	related	related	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 families	amod
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 related	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 whom	punct
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 whom	case
34	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 went	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 heard	punct
36	till	till	ADP	_	37 then	case
37	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 heard	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 heard	punct
39	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	40 one	det
40	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 heard	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 heard	aux
42	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	43 heard	advmod
43	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 leave	parataxis
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 leave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not leave	past · do-support	children = child	wealth			behind things = thing	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme behind they=Location
2	leave	past	children = child	less			behind things = thing	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind they=Location
3	believe	past · perfect	people					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	possess	past	people					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
5	go	past			families			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to family=Initial_Location of whom=Destination
6	hear	past · perfect	no one			ever		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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