The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 67

So he lay down in the coffin, and while he took a last look around him, his old dog came out from the farm and sat down by him, and whined.

Who acts: husband, old dog · What happens: lie down, take, come out, sit down, whine · To what, where: coffin, last look, farm

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 (husband, old dog), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 lay	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 lay	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 coffin	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 coffin	det
7	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 took	cc
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 took	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 took	nsubj
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 look	det
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 look	amod
15	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obj
16	around	around	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 took	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 dog	nmod:poss
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 dog	amod
21	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	conj
23	out	out	ADV	_	22 came	advmod
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 farm	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 farm	det
26	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sat	cc
28	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 came	conj
29	down	down	ADP	_	28 sat	compound:prt
30	by	by	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sat	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 whined	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 whined	cc
34	whined	whine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie down	past	husband		the coffin	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in coffin=Location
2	take	past	husband	a last look		around man	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Theme
3	come out	past	husband's old dog		the farm	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	sit down	past	husband's old dog not said here			by husband	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by he=Location
5	whine	past	husband not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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 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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