The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 35

Accordingly, after the fakeer was dead, and had been buried, he stayed behind when all the rest went away; and then, when he was quite alone, he stepped forward, and laid his hand upon the grave!

Who acts: King, rest · What happens: be, bury, stay, go away, step forward, lay · To what, where: hand, grave

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, rest), 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	Accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	7 dead	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Accordingly	punct
3	after	after	ADP	_	5 fakeer	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fakeer	det
5	fakeer	fakeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dead	obl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 buried	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 buried	cc
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 buried	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 buried	aux:pass
12	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 dead	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stayed	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stayed	nsubj
15	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 buried	conj
16	behind	behind	ADV	_	15 stayed	advmod
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 went	mark
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 rest	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 rest	det
20	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 stayed	advcl
22	away	away	ADV	_	21 went	advmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 alone	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 alone	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 alone	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 alone	punct
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 alone	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 alone	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 alone	cop
30	quite	quite	ADV	_	31 alone	advmod
31	alone	alone	ADV	_	7 dead	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 stepped	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 stepped	nsubj
34	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 alone	parataxis
35	forward	forward	ADV	_	34 stepped	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 laid	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 laid	cc
38	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 stepped	conj
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 hand	nmod:poss
40	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 laid	obj
41	upon	upon	ADP	_	43 grave	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 grave	det
43	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 laid	obl
44	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				after the fakeer	accordingly, dead property	tree rules
2	bury	past · perfect · passive						vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»
3	stay	past	King				behind property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go away	past	all rest				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	King			then	alone property	tree rules
6	step forward	past	King				forward property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	lay	past	King not said here	King's hand	the grave			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme upon grave=Destination

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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