More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 103

Tom's father died, and his mother being tender of him, kept him as well as she could.

Who acts: father, mother · What happens: die, be, keep · To what, where: tender, father

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, mother), 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	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 father	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Tom	case
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tender	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tender	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mother	nmod:poss
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tender	nsubj
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 tender	cop
10	tender	tender	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 died	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tender	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kept	punct
14	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 died	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 kept	obj
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 well	advmod
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 kept	advmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 could	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 could	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 well	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	die	past	Tom's father			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	is a	gerund	father's mother	tender	of father	tree rules
3	keep	past	Tom's father not said here	father	well property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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