The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 15

Now that the father and elder brother were both dead, all that was left of the jackal family was one son, who was no less cunning than the others had been.

Who acts: father, jackal family, one son, cunning · What happens: be, leave, have · To what, where: that, cunning

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, jackal family, one son, cunning), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 left	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 dead	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 father	det
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dead	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 brother	cc
6	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 brother	amod
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 father	conj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dead	cop
9	both	both	ADV	_	10 dead	advmod
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Now	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 left	det:predet
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 left	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 left	aux:pass
15	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
16	of	of	ADP	_	22 son	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 family	det
18	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 family	compound
19	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 son	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 son	cop
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 son	nummod
22	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 left	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 cunning	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 cunning	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 cunning	cop
26	no	no	ADV	_	27 less	advmod
27	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 cunning	advmod
28	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 son	appos
29	than	than	ADP	_	31 others	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 others	det
31	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 cunning	nmod
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 cunning	acl
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 had	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the father and elder brother			both, dead property	tree rules
2	leave	past · passive		that	now		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	is	past	the jackal family			of one son	tree rules
4	is a	past	one son	cunning		than the others; less property	tree rules
5	have	past	cunning not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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