The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 31
He could leave no money to his nephew, as he had a son of his own; but he taught him all he knew, and at his dead Gilguerillo entered an office, where he worked for many hours daily.
Who acts: Gilguerillo · What happens: leave, have, teach, know, enter, work · To what, where: money, nephew, son, all, life, office
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gilguerillo), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 leave | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 leave | aux |
| 3 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 money | det |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leave | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 nephew | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 8 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leave | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 had | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 leave | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 son | det |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 own | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 own | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 son | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 taught | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 taught | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 taught | nsubj |
| 21 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 leave | parataxis |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 taught | obj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 taught | obj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 knew | nsubj |
| 25 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 all | acl:relcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 entered | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 entered | cc |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 Gilguerillo | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 Gilguerillo | nmod:poss |
| 30 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Gilguerillo | amod |
| 31 | Gilguerillo | Gilguerillo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 entered | obl |
| 32 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 leave | parataxis |
| 33 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 office | det |
| 34 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 entered | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 worked | punct |
| 36 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 38 worked | advmod |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 worked | nsubj |
| 38 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 entered | conj |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 hours | case |
| 40 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 hours | amod |
| 41 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 worked | obl |
| 42 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 38 worked | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | could | Gilguerillo | no money | Gilguerillo's nephew | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Theme to nephew=Recipient | |||
| 2 | have | past | Gilguerillo | a son of Gilguerillo's own | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 3 | teach speech: other | past | Gilguerillo | all | life | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient all=Topic | |||
| 4 | know | past | Gilguerillo | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | enter | past | a office | Gilguerillo's dead Gilguerillo | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme office=Destination | ||||
| 6 | work | past | Gilguerillo | hour | daily property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: 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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