The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 16

The queen, his mother, fell ill soon after his birth, and as she could not take care of him herself she sent him to a woman she knew up in the mountains, so that he might learn to go out in all weathers, and bear heat and cold, and grow tall and strong.

Who acts: queen, boy · What happens: fall, not take, send, know up, learn, go out · To what, where: care, boy, mountains, weathers, heat

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 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 (queen, boy), 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 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fell	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mother	punct
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mother	nmod:poss
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 queen	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 queen	punct
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fell	xcomp
9	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 fell	advmod
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 birth	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 birth	nmod:poss
12	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fell	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 take	cc
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 take	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 take	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 take	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 take	advmod
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 fell	parataxis
20	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 take	obl
23	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 take	obl
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sent	nsubj
25	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 take	parataxis
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sent	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 woman	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 woman	det
29	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 knew	obl
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 knew	nsubj
31	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sent	parataxis
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 knew	compound:prt
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 mountains	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 mountains	det
35	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 knew	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 learn	punct
37	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	41 learn	mark
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 so	fixed
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 learn	nsubj
40	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 learn	aux
41	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 knew	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 go	mark
43	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 learn	xcomp
44	out	out	ADV	_	43 go	advmod
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 weathers	case
46	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	47 weathers	det
47	weathers	weather	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 go	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 bear	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 bear	cc
50	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 learn	conj
51	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 bear	obj
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 cold	cc
53	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 heat	conj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 grow	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 grow	cc
56	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fell	parataxis
57	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 grow	xcomp
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 strong	cc
59	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 tall	conj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the queen			after boy's birth	ill, soon property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not take	could	queen	care			of boy; queen obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of he=Initial_Location
3	send	past	queen	boy				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	know up	past	queen		the mountains		to a woman	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	learn	might	boy					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	go out	to-infinitive	boy not said here		all weathers		out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	bear	infinitive	boy not said here	heat				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Patient
8	grow	present					tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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