The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 2

While he was still quite little, his father died, and the kinsmen, instead of being a help and protection to the child and his mother, robbed them of their lands and money, and the widow, fearing that they might take the boy’s life also, sent him away to Spain, that he might study in the great University of Toledo.

Who acts: boy, father, kinsmen · What happens: be, die, rob, fear, take, send away · To what, where: widow, child, life, boy, Spain, great University

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, father, kinsmen), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	6 little	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 little	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 little	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	6 little	advmod
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 little	advmod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 died	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 little	punct
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 died	nsubj
10	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 robbed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 robbed	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 kinsmen	det
14	kinsmen	kinsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 robbed	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 help	punct
16	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	20 help	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	16 instead	fixed
18	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 help	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 help	det
20	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kinsmen	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 protection	cc
22	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 help	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 child	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 child	det
25	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 help	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 mother	cc
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 mother	nmod:poss
28	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 child	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kinsmen	punct
30	robbed	rob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 died	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 robbed	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 lands	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 lands	nmod:poss
34	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 robbed	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 money	cc
36	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lands	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 widow	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 widow	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 widow	det
40	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 died	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 fearing	punct
42	fearing	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 died	advcl
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 take	mark
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 take	nsubj
45	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 take	aux
46	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 fearing	advcl
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 boy	det
48	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 life	nmod:poss
49	’s	's	PART	_	48 boy	case
50	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 take	obj
51	also	also	ADV	_	46 take	advmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 sent	punct
53	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 died	conj
54	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 sent	obj
55	away	away	ADV	_	53 sent	advmod
56	to	to	ADP	_	57 Spain	case
57	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 sent	obl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 study	punct
59	that	that	SCONJ	_	62 study	mark
60	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 study	nsubj
61	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	62 study	aux
62	study	study	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 sent	advcl
63	in	in	ADP	_	66 University	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 University	det
65	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 University	amod
66	University	University	PROPN	Number=Sing	62 study	obl
67	of	of	ADP	_	68 Toledo	case
68	Toledo	Toledo	PROPN	Number=Sing	66 University	nmod
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	boy				still	little property	tree rules
2	die	past	boy's father	the widow					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	is	gerund						instead a help and protection; to the child and boy's mother	tree rules
4	rob	past	the kinsmen	child				of kinsmen's lands and money	vn rob-10.6.4 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme of land=Source
5	fear	gerund	boy's father not said here						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	take	might	kinsmen = kinsman	the boy's life					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
7	send away	past	boy's father not said here	boy	Spain			away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
8	study	might	boy			the great University of Toledo			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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