The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 89

At last the goldsmith quieted down, and agreed to accept one thousand gold pieces from the stranger, who immediately helped him to bury his poor wife, and then rushed off to the guest house, packed up his things and was off by daylight, lest the goldsmith should repent and accuse him as the murderer of his wife.

Who acts: stranger, Goldsmith, guest house · What happens: quiet down, agree, accept, help, bury, rush off · To what, where: goldsmith, last, thousand gold pieces, stranger, poor wife, things

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger, Goldsmith, guest house), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 agreed	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 goldsmith	det
4	goldsmith	goldsmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 last	nsubj
5	quieted	quiet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 goldsmith	acl
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 quieted	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 agreed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 agreed	cc
9	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 accept	mark
11	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 agreed	xcomp
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 thousand	compound
13	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 pieces	nummod
14	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pieces	compound
15	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 accept	obj
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 stranger	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stranger	det
18	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 accept	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 helped	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 helped	nsubj
21	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	22 helped	advmod
22	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 stranger	acl:relcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 helped	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 bury	mark
25	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 helped	xcomp
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 wife	nmod:poss
27	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 wife	amod
28	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bury	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 rushed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 rushed	cc
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 rushed	advmod
32	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 agreed	parataxis
33	off	off	ADP	_	32 rushed	compound:prt
34	to	to	ADP	_	37 house	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 house	det
36	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 house	compound
37	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 rushed	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 packed	punct
39	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 house	acl
40	up	up	ADP	_	39 packed	compound:prt
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 things	nmod:poss
42	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 packed	obj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 off	cc
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 off	cop
45	off	off	ADP	_	32 rushed	compound:prt
46	by	by	ADP	_	47 daylight	case
47	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 rushed	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 repent	punct
49	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	53 repent	mark
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 goldsmith	det
51	goldsmith	goldsmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 repent	nsubj
52	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 repent	aux
53	repent	repent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 rushed	parataxis
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 accuse	cc
55	accuse	accuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 repent	conj
56	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 accuse	obj
57	as	as	ADP	_	59 murderer	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 murderer	det
59	murderer	murderer	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 accuse	obl
60	of	of	ADP	_	62 wife	case
61	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 wife	nmod:poss
62	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 murderer	nmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quiet down	participle		the goldsmith not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	agree speech: agree	past			last			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	accept not said to happen	to-infinitive		thousand gold pieces	the stranger			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent piece=Theme from stranger=Source
4	help	past	the stranger	Goldsmith			immediately property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme
5	bury	to-infinitive	Goldsmith not said here	Goldsmith's poor wife				vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme
6	rush off	past				then	to the guest house result; by daylight	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result
7	pack up	participle	the guest house not said here	Goldsmith's things				vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Destination
8	repent	should	the goldsmith					tree rules
9	accuse	infinitive	the goldsmith not said here	Goldsmith			as the murderer of Goldsmith's wife	vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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