The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 106

And she took him to a wild heath, where the dead were lying as they fell, waiting for burial.

Who acts: princess, dead, drops · What happens: take, lie, fall, wait · To what, where: castle, wild heath

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, dead, drops), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 took	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 heath	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 heath	det
7	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 heath	amod
8	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lying	punct
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 lying	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dead	det
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lying	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 lying	aux
14	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 heath	conj
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 fell	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fell	nsubj
17	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 lying	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 waiting	punct
19	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 fell	advcl
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 burial	case
21	burial	burial	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 waiting	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	princess	castle	a wild heath		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to heath=Destination
2	lie	past · progressive	the dead				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall	past	drops = drop				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wait	gerund	drops = drop not said here			for burial	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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