The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 12

And every day the boy grew bigger and stronger till he was twelve years old, when the king died, and he was left alone to take care of his mother.

Who acts: boy, king · What happens: grow, be, die, leave, take · To what, where: boy, care

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, king), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 grew	cc
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	nsubj
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 grew	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stronger	cc
9	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 bigger	conj
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 old	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 old	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 old	cop
13	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 years	nummod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 old	obl:unmarked
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bigger	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 died	punct
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 died	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 king	det
19	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 died	nsubj
20	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 old	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 left	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 left	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 left	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 left	aux:pass
25	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 grew	conj
26	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 left	xcomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 take	mark
28	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 left	advcl
29	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 mother	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 mother	nmod:poss
32	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the boy		day	big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	boy		year	old property	tree rules
3	die	past	the king				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	leave	past · passive		boy		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	take	to-infinitive		care		of boy's mother	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of mother=Initial_Location

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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