The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 2

When he was on his death-bed he turned to them and said, ‘I have nothing to leave you but three sheep and a small house; divide them between you, as you like, but don’t quarrel over them whatever you do.’

Who acts: son, I, you · What happens: be, turn, say, have, leave, divide · To what, where: death bed, shepherd, nothing, you, whatever · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, I, you), 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	SCONJ	_	8 bed	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bed	cop
4	on	on	ADP	_	8 bed	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bed	nmod:poss
6	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bed	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 death	punct
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turned	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 turned	nsubj
10	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 turned	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 turned	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 have	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 leave	mark
21	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 nothing	acl
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 leave	obj
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 sheep	cc
24	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 sheep	nummod
25	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 leave	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 house	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 house	det
28	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 house	amod
29	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sheep	conj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 divide	punct
31	divide	divide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 turned	parataxis
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 divide	obj
33	between	between	ADP	_	34 you	case
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 divide	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 like	punct
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 like	mark
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 like	nsubj
38	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 divide	parataxis
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 quarrel	punct
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 quarrel	cc
41	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 quarrel	aux
42	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 quarrel	advmod
43	quarrel	quarrel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 like	conj
44	over	over	ADP	_	45 them	case
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 quarrel	obl
46	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 do	obj
47	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	48 do	nsubj
48	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 quarrel	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 turned	punct
50	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	son			son's death bed		tree rules
2	turn	past	son		shepherd			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to they=Trajectory
3	say speech: assert	past	son not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have	present	I	nothing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
5	leave	to-infinitive	I not said here	you				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
6	divide	infinitive		shepherd			between you	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
7	like	present	you					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
8	not quarrel	infinitive · do-support	you not said here				over shepherd	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent over they=Theme
9	do	present	you	whatever				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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