The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 50

My parents died when I was very young, and they left me to the care of my eldest brother, by whom I was carefully educated.

Who acts: parents, I, eldest brother · What happens: die, be, leave, educate, care · To what, where: me, I

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, I, eldest brother), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 parents	nmod:poss
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 died	nsubj
3	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 young	advmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 young	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 young	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 young	advmod
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 died	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 left	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 left	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 left	nsubj
12	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 died	conj
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 left	iobj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 care	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 care	det
16	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 left	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 brother	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 brother	nmod:poss
19	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 brother	amod
20	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 care	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 whom	punct
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 whom	case
23	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 left	parataxis
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 educated	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 educated	aux:pass
26	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	27 educated	advmod
27	educated	educate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 whom	acl:relcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	die	past	My parents				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	is	past	I			young property	tree rules
3	leave	past	parents = parent		me	to the care of my eldest brother	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Theme to care=Recipient
4	educate speech: other	past · passive		I		carefully property	vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	care		my eldest brother				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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