The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 1

There was once a little boy, whose father and mother, when they were dying, left him to the care of a guardian.

Who acts: little boy, father, guardian · What happens: be, die, leave, care · To what, where: boy, care

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little boy, father, guardian), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boy	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	amod
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 father	punct
8	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boy	appos
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 mother	cc
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 father	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dying	punct
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 dying	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 dying	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 dying	aux
16	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 father	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 left	punct
18	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 left	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 care	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 care	det
22	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 left	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 guardian	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 guardian	det
25	guardian	guardian	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 care	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a little boy			there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	die	past · progressive	father					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	leave	past		boy	the care of a guardian			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to care=Recipient
4	care		a guardian					nom care «act 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 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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