The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 113

So when the youth had been there for the space of a year or so, he wanted to go home again to pay his parents a visit; but when he got there his father and mother were dead, and his brothers had divided everything that their parents possessed between themselves, so that there was nothing at all left for him.

Who acts: youth, number, father, parents · What happens: be, want, go, pay, get, divide · To what, where: parents, brothers, nothing, all

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, number, father, parents), 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 there	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 there	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youth	det
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 there	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 there	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 there	cop
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 wanted	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 space	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 space	det
10	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 there	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 year	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 year	det
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 space	nmod
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 so	cc
15	so	so	ADV	_	7 there	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wanted	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wanted	nsubj
18	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	to	to	PART	_	20 go	mark
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wanted	xcomp
21	home	home	ADV	_	20 go	advmod
22	again	again	ADV	_	20 go	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 pay	mark
24	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 go	advcl
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 parents	nmod:poss
26	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 pay	obj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 visit	det
28	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pay	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 got	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 got	cc
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 got	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 got	nsubj
33	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 wanted	conj
34	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 got	advmod
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 father	nmod:poss
36	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 dead	nsubj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 mother	cc
38	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 father	conj
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 dead	cop
40	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 got	parataxis
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 divided	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 divided	cc
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 brothers	nmod:poss
44	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 divided	nsubj:pass
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 divided	aux
46	divided	divide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 wanted	parataxis
47	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	46 divided	obj
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	59 nothing	mark
49	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 parents	nmod:poss
50	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 nothing	nsubj
51	possessed	possess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 parents	acl
52	between	between	ADP	_	53 themselves	case
53	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	51 possessed	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 was	punct
55	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	58 was	mark
56	that	that	SCONJ	_	55 so	fixed
57	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	58 was	expl
58	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 nothing	cop
59	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	47 everything	appos
60	at	at	ADP	_	61 all	case
61	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	59 nothing	nmod
62	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 nothing	amod
63	for	for	ADP	_	64 him	case
64	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 left	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	the youth					for the space of a year; there property	tree rules
2	want	past	number						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	number not said here				again	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pay	to-infinitive	number not said here		number's parents				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient visit=Asset
5	get	past	number			there			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	past	number's father and mother					dead property	tree rules
7	divide	past · perfect · passive		number's brothers					tree rules
8	possess	participle		brothers's parents not said here				between brothers = brother	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
9	is a	past	brothers's parents	nothing		all			tree rules

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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