The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 28

The Rajah’s wife died when they were very little children, so these seven Princesses grew up without having a loving mother to watch over and care for them.

Who acts: wife, daughters, seven Princesses · What happens: die, be, grow up, have, watch over, care · To what, where: little children, loving mother

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, daughters, seven Princesses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree 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	2 Rajah	det
2	Rajah	Rajah	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Rajah	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 died	nsubj
5	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 children	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 children	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 children	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 little	advmod
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 children	amod
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 died	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 grew	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	17 grew	advmod
14	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 Princesses	det
15	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 Princesses	nummod
16	Princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 grew	nsubj
17	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 died	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 grew	compound:prt
19	without	without	SCONJ	_	20 having	mark
20	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 grew	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 mother	det
22	loving	loving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 mother	amod
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 having	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 watch	mark
25	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 having	advcl
26	over	over	ADP	_	25 watch	compound:prt
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 care	cc
28	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 watch	conj
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 care	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	die	past	the Rajah's wife			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	is a	past	daughters = daughter	little children		tree rules
3	grow up	past	this seven Princesses			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	gerund	this seven Princesses not said here	a loving mother		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient
5	watch over	to-infinitive	this seven Princesses not said here			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
6	care	infinitive	this seven Princesses not said here		for daughters = daughter	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for they=Theme

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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 28

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 28