The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 12

The dead man was so astonished at this behaviour, that he peeped out of a little window in the side of the coffin, and cried out:

Who acts: dead man, man · What happens: be, peep out, cry out · To what, where: behaviour, little window

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 (dead man, man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 astonished	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 astonished	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 astonished	advmod
6	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 behaviour	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 behaviour	det
9	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 astonished	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 peeped	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 peeped	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 peeped	nsubj
13	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 astonished	parataxis
14	out	out	ADP	_	18 window	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 window	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 window	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 window	amod
18	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 peeped	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 side	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 side	det
21	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 window	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 coffin	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 coffin	det
24	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 side	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cried	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 cried	cc
27	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 peeped	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 cried	compound:prt
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 astonished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the dead man		this behaviour	astonished property	tree rules
2	peep out	past	man	a little window in the side of the coffin			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent window=Theme
3	cry out speech: express	past	man not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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