The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 72

'He died six months ago,' said the rich brother, 'and he left you, as your portion, the old wooden chest that stands in the loft.

Who acts: father, rich brother, old wooden chest · What happens: die, say, leave, stand · To what, where: you, loft · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (father, rich brother, old wooden chest), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 died	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 died	nsubj
3	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
4	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 months	nummod
5	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ago	obl:unmarked
6	ago	ago	ADV	_	3 died	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 died	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 died	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 brother	det
11	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 brother	amod
12	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 left	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 left	nsubj
17	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 left	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 portion	punct
20	as	as	ADP	_	22 portion	case
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 portion	nmod:poss
22	portion	portion	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 left	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 chest	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 chest	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 chest	amod
26	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 chest	amod
27	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 portion	appos
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 stands	nsubj
29	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 chest	acl:relcl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 loft	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 loft	det
32	loft	loft	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stands	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	die	past	father			ago property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	past	the rich brother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	leave	past	father	you		as your portion	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	stand	present	the old wooden chest		the loft		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in loft=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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