--- title: In the letter, containing the news of his brother's death, it was st… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: In the letter, containing the news of his brother's death, it was stated that he had left in his will a legacy of six hundred dollars to the glovemaker's widow, who had been his mother's maid, to be paid with discretion, in large or small sums to the widow or her child. Who acts: letter, news, widow --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/46/157/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [She Was Good For Nothing](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/46/) / 157 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 157 In the letter, containing the news of his brother's death, it was stated that he had left in his will a legacy of six hundred dollars to the glovemaker's widow, who had been his mother's maid, to be paid with discretion, in large or small sums to the widow or her child. **Who acts:** letter, news, widow, brother · **What happens:** contain, state, leave, be, pay, die · **To what, where:** news, death, letter, legacy, maid, large sums · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (letter, news, widow, brother), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:46:157 # text = In the letter, containing the news of his brother's death, it was stated that he had left in his will a legacy of six hundred dollars to the glovemaker's widow, who had been his mother's maid, to be paid with discretion, in large or small sums to the widow or her child. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 containing contain VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 stated state VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 ccomp _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 23 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 legacy legacy NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 compound _ _ 28 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 dollars dollar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 glovemaker glovemaker NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 33 's 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 widow widow NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 36 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 42 nsubj _ _ 37 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 38 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 42 cop _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 41 's 's PART POS _ 40 case _ _ 42 maid maid NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 45 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 46 aux:pass _ _ 46 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 47 with with ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 discretion discretion NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 50 in in ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 51 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 52 or or CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 53 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 conj _ _ 54 sums sum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obl _ _ 55 to to ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 57 widow widow NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nmod _ _ 58 or or CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 59 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 60 nmod:poss _ _ 60 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 61 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **contain** | gerund | the letter *not said here* | the news of news's brother's death | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot news=Theme | | 2 | **state** *speech: other* | past · passive | | death | | the letter | | | tree rules | | 3 | **leave** | past · perfect | news | | | | | in news's legacy of hundred dollars *result*; to the glovemaker's widow and news's mother's maid | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in legacy=Result | | 4 | **is a** | past · perfect | the glovemaker's widow and news's mother's maid | news's mother's maid | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **pay** | to-infinitive · passive | | | | large sums to the widow or woman's child | | with discretion | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP» | | 6 | **die** | | news's brother | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: 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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 156](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/46/156/) - next →: [sentence 158](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/46/158/) - ↑ back to [She Was Good For Nothing](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/46/)