Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 41

Both of these were in the letter which brought the news that his father was dead, and that his mother was alone now.

Who acts: Both, letter, father, mother · What happens: be, bring · To what, where: letter, news

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Both, letter, father, mother), 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	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	7 letter	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 these	case
3	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	1 Both	nmod
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 letter	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 letter	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 letter	det
7	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 brought	nsubj
9	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 letter	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 news	det
11	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brought	obj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 dead	mark
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dead	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 dead	cop
16	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 brought	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 alone	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 alone	cc
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 alone	mark
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mother	nmod:poss
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 alone	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 alone	cop
23	alone	alone	ADV	_	9 brought	advmod
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 alone	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 letter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Both		the letter			tree rules
2	bring	past	the letter	the news				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent news=Theme
3	is	past	thing's father				dead property	tree rules
4	is	past	thing's mother			now	alone 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: «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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