The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 27

The old nurse died, leaving her cottage and the few articles of furniture it contained to her poor lady, who dwelt in it, working as a peasant for her daily bread.

Who acts: old nurse, nurse, poor lady · What happens: die, leave, contain, dwell, work, article · To what, where: cottage, furniture, nurse

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old nurse, nurse, poor lady), 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 nurse	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nurse	amod
3	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 leaving	punct
6	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 died	advcl
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cottage	nmod:poss
8	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leaving	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 articles	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 articles	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 articles	amod
12	articles	article	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cottage	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 furniture	case
14	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 articles	nmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 contained	nsubj
16	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 furniture	acl:relcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 lady	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 lady	nmod:poss
19	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 lady	amod
20	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 contained	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dwelt	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 dwelt	nsubj
23	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lady	acl:relcl
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 dwelt	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 working	punct
27	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 dwelt	advcl
28	as	as	ADP	_	30 peasant	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 peasant	det
30	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 working	obl
31	for	for	ADP	_	34 bread	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 bread	nmod:poss
33	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 bread	amod
34	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 working	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	die	past	the old nurse				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	leave	gerund	the old nurse not said here	lady's cottage and the few articles of furniture			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme
3	contain	past	nurse	furniture not said here		to lady's poor lady	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot furniture=Theme
4	dwell	past	lady's poor lady		nurse		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location
5	work	gerund	lady's poor lady not said here			as a peasant; for lady's daily bread	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.attribute PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent as peasant=Attribute for bread=Beneficiary
6	article			furniture			nom article «communication transitive»: of=patient

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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