The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 30

Both father and mother had died before the boy was six years old; and he had lived for many years with his uncle, whose life had been passed in the study of chemistry.

Who acts: father, boy, Gilguerillo · What happens: die, be, live, pass, study · To what, where: life, study, chemistry

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, boy, Gilguerillo), 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	Both	both	CCONJ	_	2 father	cc:preconj
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 mother	cc
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 father	conj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 died	aux
6	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 old	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 old	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 old	cop
11	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 old	obl:unmarked
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 died	advcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 lived	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lived	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lived	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lived	aux
18	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 died	conj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 years	case
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 years	amod
21	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 lived	obl
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 uncle	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 uncle	nmod:poss
24	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lived	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 passed	punct
26	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	27 life	nmod:poss
27	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 passed	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 passed	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 passed	aux:pass
30	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 uncle	acl:relcl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 study	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 study	det
33	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 passed	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 chemistry	case
35	chemistry	chemistry	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 study	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past · perfect	father and mother					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	is	past	the boy			year	old property	tree rules
3	live	past · perfect	Gilguerillo			year	with Gilguerillo's uncle	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with uncle=Location
4	pass	past · perfect · passive		life	the study of chemistry			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in study=Destination
5	study			chemistry				nom study «act transitive»: of=patient

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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