The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 8

The lady was the queen of her own country, but as her father and mother had died when she was a little girl, she had been left in the care of this king who was her uncle.

Who acts: lady, father, king · What happens: be, die, leave, care · To what, where: queen, little girl, lady, care, uncle

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, father, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lady	det
2	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 queen	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 queen	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 queen	det
5	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 country	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 country	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 country	amod
9	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 queen	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 died	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 died	cc
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 died	mark
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 died	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 mother	cc
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 father	conj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 died	aux
18	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 queen	acl
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 girl	advmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 girl	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 girl	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 girl	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 girl	amod
24	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 died	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 left	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 left	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 left	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 left	aux:pass
29	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 queen	parataxis
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 care	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 care	det
32	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 left	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 king	case
34	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 king	det
35	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 care	nmod
36	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 uncle	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 uncle	cop
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 uncle	nmod:poss
39	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 king	acl:relcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 queen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the lady	the queen		of lady's own country	tree rules
2	die	past · perfect	lady's father and mother	the queen not said here			tree rules
3	is a	past	lady	a little girl			tree rules
4	leave	past · perfect · passive		lady	the care of this king		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in care=Location
5	is a	past	this king	lady's uncle			tree rules
6	care		this king				nom care «act intransitive»: of=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: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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