The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 92

Before he was many years old, however, he had the great sorrow of losing his mother, whose last words were to advise him never to undertake anything of importance without consulting the Fairy under whose protection she had placed him.

Who acts: godmother, great sorrow, Queen, mother · What happens: be, have, lose, advise, not undertake, consult · To what, where: great sorrow, mother, godmother, anything, Fairy, protection

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (godmother, great sorrow, Queen, 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	6 old	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 old	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 years	amod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 old	obl:unmarked
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 advise	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct
8	however	however	ADV	_	11 had	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 however	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sorrow	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sorrow	amod
14	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	16 losing	mark
16	losing	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 sorrow	acl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mother	nmod:poss
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 losing	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 words	punct
20	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	22 words	nmod:poss
21	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 words	amod
22	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 mother	conj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 advise	aux
24	to	to	PART	_	25 advise	mark
25	advise	advise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 advise	obj
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 undertake	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 undertake	mark
29	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 advise	xcomp
30	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 undertake	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 importance	case
32	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 anything	nmod
33	without	without	SCONJ	_	34 consulting	mark
34	consulting	consult	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 undertake	advcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Fairy	det
36	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 consulting	obj
37	under	under	ADP	_	39 protection	case
38	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	39 protection	nmod:poss
39	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 consulting	obl
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 placed	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 placed	aux
42	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 protection	acl:relcl
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 placed	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 advise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	godmother			year	old property	tree rules
2	have	past	godmother	the great sorrow			however property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorrow=Patient
3	lose	gerund	the great sorrow not said here	godmother's mother and godmother's mother and mother's last words's last words				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Eventuality
4	advise speech: other	past		godmother				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	not undertake not said to happen	to-infinitive	godmother not said here	anything				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
6	consult	gerund	godmother not said here	the Fairy	protection			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Theme
7	place	past · perfect	Queen	godmother				vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
8	word		godmother's mother and godmother's mother and last words's last words					nom word «communication 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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