The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 10

Just as the body was being placed in the ground the other woman’s husband came running up, dressed, as far as anyone could see, in no clothes at all.

Who acts: husband, anyone · What happens: place, come, run up, dress, see · To what, where: body, ground, clothes

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, anyone), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	7 placed	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 placed	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 body	det
4	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 placed	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 placed	aux:pass
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 placed	aux:pass
7	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 came	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 ground	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ground	det
10	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 placed	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 husband	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 woman	case
15	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 came	advcl
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 running	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dressed	punct
20	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 running	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 far	advmod
23	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 see	advmod
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 see	mark
25	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 see	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 see	aux
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 came	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 clothes	punct
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 clothes	case
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 clothes	det
31	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	27 see	obl
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 all	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 clothes	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	place	past · passive		the body	the ground		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in ground=Destination
2	come	past	the other woman's husband				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	run up	gerund	the other woman's husband not said here				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	dress	participle	the other woman's husband not said here				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	see	could	anyone		no clothes at all	far property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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