The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 16

They died almost at the same time, leaving their kingdom to the eldest of their children, and commending their youngest son, Prince Narcissus, to the care of the Fairy Melinette.

Who acts: parents, Fairy Melinette · What happens: die, leave, commend, care · To what, where: kingdom, youngest son

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, Fairy Melinette), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 died	nsubj
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	2 died	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 time	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 died	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 leaving	punct
9	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 died	advcl
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 kingdom	nmod:poss
11	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leaving	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 eldest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 eldest	det
14	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 leaving	xcomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 children	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 children	nmod:poss
17	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 eldest	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 commending	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 commending	cc
20	commending	commend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 died	advcl
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 son	nmod:poss
22	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 son	amod
23	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 commending	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Narcissus	punct
25	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Narcissus	nmod:desc
26	Narcissus	Narcissus	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 son	appos
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 care	punct
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 care	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 care	det
30	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 commending	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 Melinette	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Melinette	det
33	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Melinette	compound
34	Melinette	Melinette	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 care	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	parents = parent		time	almost property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	leave	gerund	parents = parent not said here	parents's kingdom		eld property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme
3	commend	gerund	parents = parent not said here	parents's youngest son		to the care of the Fairy Melinette	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme
4	care		the Fairy Melinette				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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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