The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 53

When the boys were still children, their father and mother died, and a great council was held, and a man was chosen from among them who would rule the kingdom till the boys were old enough to rule it themselves.

Who acts: boys, children · What happens: be, die, hold, choose, rule · To what, where: children, great council, man, kingdom

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, children), 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	6 children	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boys	det
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 children	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 children	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 children	advmod
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 died	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 children	punct
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 died	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 mother	cc
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 father	conj
12	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 held	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 held	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 council	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 council	amod
17	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 held	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 held	aux:pass
19	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 died	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 chosen	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 chosen	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 man	det
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 chosen	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 chosen	aux:pass
25	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 died	conj
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 them	case
27	among	among	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 chosen	obl
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 rule	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 rule	aux
31	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 chosen	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 kingdom	det
33	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rule	obj
34	till	till	SCONJ	_	38 old	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 boys	det
36	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 old	nsubj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 old	cop
38	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 rule	advcl
39	enough	enough	ADV	_	38 old	advmod
40	to	to	PART	_	41 rule	mark
41	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 old	advcl
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 rule	obj
43	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	41 rule	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the boys	children	still		tree rules
2	die	past	children				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	hold	past · passive		a great council			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	choose	past · passive		a man		from children = child	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from they=Source
5	rule	would		the kingdom			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme
6	is	past	the boys			enough, old property	tree rules
7	rule	to-infinitive	the boys not said here	kingdom			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme themselves=Result

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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