The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 8

The man was very frightened at her words, and lay absolutely still while the undertaker came and measured him for his coffin; and his wife gave orders to the gravedigger about his grave.

Who acts: man, undertaker, wife, sun · What happens: be, lay, come, measure, give, word · To what, where: words, man, orders, gravedigger

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 (man, undertaker, wife, sun), 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	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 frightened	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 frightened	advmod
5	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 words	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 words	nmod:poss
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 frightened	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lay	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lay	cc
11	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 frightened	conj
12	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	_	11 lay	advmod
13	still	still	ADV	_	11 lay	advmod
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 came	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 undertaker	det
16	undertaker	undertaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lay	advcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 measured	cc
19	measured	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 came	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 measured	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 coffin	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 coffin	nmod:poss
23	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 measured	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 gave	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 gave	cc
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 wife	nmod:poss
27	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gave	nsubj
28	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	conj
29	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 gave	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 gravedigger	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 gravedigger	det
32	gravedigger	gravedigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gave	obl
33	about	about	ADP	_	35 grave	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 grave	nmod:poss
35	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gravedigger	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the man			sun's words		frightened property	tree rules
2	lay	infinitive	the man not said here				still	absolutely property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	the undertaker						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	measure	past	the undertaker not said here	man				for man's coffin	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme he=Value
5	give	past	man's wife	orders	the gravedigger about man's grave				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent order=Theme to gravedigger=Recipient
6	word		sun						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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