The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 65

Meanwhile they had reached home, and before getting down from his horse the man called for a coffin to be brought; and when it was there he placed it in front of the house, and said to his wife:

Who acts: horses, coffin, husband · What happens: reach, get down, call, bring, be, place · To what, where: man, coffin, front, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horses, coffin, husband), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	4 reached	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reached	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reached	aux
4	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 reached	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 getting	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 getting	cc
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 getting	mark
9	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 reached	conj
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 getting	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 horse	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 horse	nmod:poss
13	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 getting	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 horse	appos
16	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 man	acl
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 coffin	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 coffin	det
19	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 called	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	22 brought	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 brought	aux:pass
22	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 coffin	acl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 placed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 placed	cc
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 there	advmod
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 there	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 there	cop
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 placed	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 placed	nsubj
30	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reached	parataxis
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 placed	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 front	case
33	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 placed	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 house	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 house	det
36	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 front	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 said	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 said	cc
39	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 placed	conj
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 wife	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 wife	nmod:poss
42	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 said	obl
43	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past · perfect	horses = horse				home, meanwhile property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get down	gerund	horses = horse not said here				from husband's horse; down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	call	participle		the man not said here			for a coffin	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for coffin=Recipient
4	bring	to-infinitive · passive						vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»
5	is	past	coffin				there property	tree rules
6	place	past	husband	coffin		front of the house		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in front=Destination
7	say speech: assert	past	husband not said here		husband's wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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