The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 31

When these things happened Saphir was about eighteen years old, and fifteen years had passed away since the death of his mother.

Who acts: things, Saphir, mother · What happens: happen, be, pass away, die · To what, where: fifteen years

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 (things, Saphir, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 happened	advmod
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 things	det
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 old	advcl
5	Saphir	Saphir	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 old	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 old	cop
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 eighteen	advmod
8	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 old	obl:unmarked
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 passed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 passed	cc
13	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 years	nummod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 passed	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 passed	aux
16	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 old	conj
17	away	away	ADV	_	16 passed	advmod
18	since	since	ADP	_	20 death	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 death	det
20	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 passed	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 mother	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mother	nmod:poss
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 death	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	this things				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Saphir		year	old property	tree rules
3	pass away	past · perfect · passive		fifteen years	since the death of Saphir's mother	away property	tree rules
4	die		Saphir's mother				nom death «event 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 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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