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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 157

In the letter, containing the news of his brother's death, it was stated that he had left in his will a legacy of six hundred dollars to the glovemaker's widow, who had been his mother's maid, to be paid with discretion, in large or small sums to the widow or her child.

Who acts: letter, news, widow, brother · What happens: contain, state, leave, be, pay, die · To what, where: news, death, letter, legacy, maid, large sums · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (letter, news, widow, brother), 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

casedetoblpunctacldetobjcasenmod:possnmod:posscasenmodpunctnsubj:passaux:passmarknsubjauxccompcasenmod:possauxdetoblcasecompoundnummodnmodcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctnsubjauxcopnmod:possnmod:posscaseconjpunctmarkaux:passconjcaseoblpunctcaseamodccconjoblcasedetnmodccnmod:possconjpunctrootInADPtheDETletterNOUN,PUNCTcontainingVERBtheDETnewsNOUNofADPhisPRONbrotherNOUN'sPARTdeathNOUN,PUNCTitPRONwasAUXstatedVERBthatSCONJhePRONhadAUXleftVERBinADPhisPRONwillAUXaDETlegacyNOUNofADPsixNUMhundredNUMdollarsNOUNtoADPtheDETglovemakerNOUN'sPARTwidowNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONhadAUXbeenAUXhisPRONmotherNOUN'sPARTmaidNOUN,PUNCTtoPARTbeAUXpaidVERBwithADPdiscretionNOUN,PUNCTinADPlargeADJorCCONJsmallADJsumsNOUNtoADPtheDETwidowNOUNorCCONJherPRONchildNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IninADP_3 lettercase
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 letterdet
3letterletterNOUNNumber=Sing16 statedobl
4,,PUNCT_5 containingpunct
5containingcontainVERBVerbForm=Ger3 letteracl
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 newsdet
7newsnewsNOUNNumber=Sing5 containingobj
8ofofADP_12 deathcase
9hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs10 brothernmod:poss
10brotherbrotherNOUNNumber=Sing12 deathnmod:poss
11's'sPART_10 brothercase
12deathdeathNOUNNumber=Sing7 newsnmod
13,,PUNCT_3 letterpunct
14ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 statednsubj:pass
15wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 statedaux:pass
16statedstateVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
17thatthatSCONJ_20 leftmark
18hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 leftnsubj
19hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 leftaux
20leftleaveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part16 statedccomp
21ininADP_25 legacycase
22hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 legacynmod:poss
23willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin25 legacyaux
24aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art25 legacydet
25legacylegacyNOUNNumber=Sing20 leftobl
26ofofADP_29 dollarscase
27sixsixNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card28 hundredcompound
28hundredhundredNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card29 dollarsnummod
29dollarsdollarNOUNNumber=Plur25 legacynmod
30totoADP_34 widowcase
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 glovemakerdet
32glovemakerglovemakerNOUNNumber=Sing34 widownmod:poss
33's'sPART_32 glovemakercase
34widowwidowNOUNNumber=Sing20 leftobl
35,,PUNCT_42 maidpunct
36whowhoPRONPronType=Rel42 maidnsubj
37hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin42 maidaux
38beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part42 maidcop
39hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs40 mothernmod:poss
40mothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing42 maidnmod:poss
41's'sPART_40 mothercase
42maidmaidNOUNNumber=Sing34 widowconj
43,,PUNCT_46 paidpunct
44totoPART_46 paidmark
45bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf46 paidaux:pass
46paidpayVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass16 statedconj
47withwithADP_48 discretioncase
48discretiondiscretionNOUNNumber=Sing46 paidobl
49,,PUNCT_54 sumspunct
50ininADP_54 sumscase
51largelargeADJDegree=Pos54 sumsamod
52ororCCONJ_53 smallcc
53smallsmallADJDegree=Pos51 largeconj
54sumssumNOUNNumber=Plur46 paidobl
55totoADP_57 widowcase
56thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art57 widowdet
57widowwidowNOUNNumber=Sing54 sumsnmod
58ororCCONJ_60 childcc
59herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs60 childnmod:poss
60childchildNOUNNumber=Sing57 widowconj
61..PUNCT_16 statedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1containgerundthe letter not said herethe news of news's brother's deathvn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot news=Theme
2state speech: otherpast · passivedeaththe lettertree rules
3leavepast · perfectnewsin news's legacy of hundred dollars result; to the glovemaker's widow and news's mother's maidvn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in legacy=Result
4is apast · perfectthe glovemaker's widow and news's mother's maidnews's mother's maidtree rules
5payto-infinitive · passivelarge sums to the widow or woman's childwith discretionvn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»
6dienews's brothernom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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