The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 7

The two children seemed quite contented, and when their father died they wept for him, and divided his possessions as he had told them.

Who acts: two children, father, pinks, child · What happens: seem, content, die, weep, divide, tell · To what, where: possessions, pinks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two children, father, pinks, child), 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 children	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 children	nummod
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 seemed	nsubj
4	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 contented	advmod
6	contented	content	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 seemed	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wept	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wept	cc
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 died	mark
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 died	nsubj
12	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wept	advcl
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wept	nsubj
14	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seemed	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wept	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 divided	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 divided	cc
19	divided	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seemed	parataxis
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 possessions	nmod:poss
21	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 divided	obj
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 told	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 told	aux
25	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 divided	conj
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	iobj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the two children				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	content	participle	the two children not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	die	past	pinks's father				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	weep	past	pinks = pink			for child	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	divide	past		child's possessions			vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	child		pinks = pink		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
7	possess		child				nom possession «act transitive»: poss=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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