The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 64
Meanwhile the younger son stayed at home with his father, who died at last in a good old age, leaving great riches behind him.
Who acts: younger son, father · What happens: stay, die, leave · To what, where: home, last, great riches
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (younger son, father), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 5 stayed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 son | det |
| 3 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 son | amod |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stayed | nsubj |
| 5 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stayed | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 father | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stayed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 died | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 died | nsubj |
| 13 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 father | acl:relcl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 died | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 age | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 age | det |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 age | amod |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 age | amod |
| 20 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 died | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 leaving | punct |
| 22 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 stayed | advcl |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 riches | amod |
| 24 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 leaving | obj |
| 25 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 leaving | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | the younger son | home | with son's father; meanwhile property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | |||
| 2 | die | past | son's father | last | in a good old age | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in age=Attribute | |||
| 3 | leave | gerund | the younger son not said here | great riches | behind son | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rich=Theme behind he=Location |
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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