The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 15

The one comfort the poor King had was his son, Prince Saphir, who was only three years old at the time of his mother’s death, and great care was given to his education.

Who acts: poor King, one comfort, son, mother, man · What happens: have, be, give, die, educate · To what, where: one comfort, son, great care, education

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor King, one comfort, son, mother), 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	3 comfort	det
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 comfort	nummod
3	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 son	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 King	amod
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 comfort	acl:relcl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 son	cop
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 son	nmod:poss
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Prince	punct
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 son	appos
13	Saphir	Saphir	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Prince	flat
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 old	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 old	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 old	cop
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 three	advmod
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 years	nummod
19	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 old	obl:unmarked
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 son	amod
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 time	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 time	det
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 old	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	28 death	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 mother	nmod:poss
26	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 death	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 mother	case
28	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 time	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 given	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 given	cc
31	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 care	amod
32	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 given	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 given	aux:pass
34	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 old	advcl
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 education	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 education	nmod:poss
37	education	education	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 given	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 son	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the poor King	the one comfort not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comfort=Patient
2	is a	past	the one comfort	man's son				tree rules
3	is	past	man's son			time; year	old property	tree rules
4	give	past · passive		great care	man's education			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to education=Recipient
5	die		man's mother					nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent
6	educate		man					nom education «act transitive»: poss=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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