The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 3
There, when children die, they are buried in the earth.
Who acts: children · What happens: die, bury · To what, where: children, earth
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 die | expl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 die | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 die | advmod |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 die | nsubj |
| 5 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 die | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 buried | aux:pass |
| 9 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 die | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 earth | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 earth | det |
| 12 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buried | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | children | there | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | bury | present · passive | children = child | the earth | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in earth=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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