The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 20
When he felt himself to be dying he divided his property between them, making them share alike, both in money and lands.
Who acts: man, sons · What happens: feel, die, divide, make, share · To what, where: man, property, sons
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, sons), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 felt | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 divided | advcl |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 felt | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 dying | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 dying | aux |
| 7 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 felt | advcl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 divided | nsubj |
| 9 | divided | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 property | nmod:poss |
| 11 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 divided | obj |
| 12 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 property | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 making | punct |
| 15 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 divided | advcl |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 making | obj |
| 17 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 making | xcomp |
| 18 | alike | alike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 share | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 money | punct |
| 20 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 22 money | cc:preconj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 money | case |
| 22 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 divided | parataxis |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 lands | cc |
| 24 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 money | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 divided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | man | man | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 2 | die | to-infinitive · progressive | man not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | divide | past | man | man's property | between sons = son | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Theme | |||
| 4 | make | gerund | man not said here | sons = son | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | share | infinitive | sons = son not said here | alike property | 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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