Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 154

The old innkeeper and his wife died one after the other; and the whole of their property, many thousand dollars, was inherited by their son.

Who acts: old innkeeper, son · What happens: die, inherit · To what, where: one

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old innkeeper, son), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 innkeeper	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 innkeeper	amod
3	innkeeper	innkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 died	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wife	cc
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 innkeeper	conj
7	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 died	obj
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 other	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 other	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 died	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 whole	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 whole	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 whole	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 died	parataxis
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 property	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 property	nmod:poss
18	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 whole	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dollars	punct
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dollars	amod
21	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 dollars	nummod
22	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 whole	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 inherited	punct
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 inherited	aux:pass
25	inherited	inherit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 died	conj
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 son	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 son	nmod:poss
28	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 inherited	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	the old innkeeper and innkeeper's wife	one			after the other		tree rules
2	inherit	past · passive	things's son						vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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