The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 9

That evening the coffin was sent home, and in the morning at nine o’clock the woman put him on a long flannel garment, and called to the undertaker’s men to fasten down the lid and carry him to the grave, where all their friends were waiting them.

Who acts: woman, friends · What happens: send, put, call, fasten down, carry, wait · To what, where: coffin, man, long flannel garment, men, lid, grave · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (woman, friends), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 evening	det
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 coffin	det
4	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sent	aux:pass
6	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 sent	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 put	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 put	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 morning	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 morning	det
12	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 put	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 o’clock	case
14	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 o’clock	nummod
15	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 morning	nmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woman	det
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 put	nsubj
18	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sent	advcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 put	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	24 garment	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 garment	det
22	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 garment	amod
23	flannel	flannel	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 garment	compound
24	garment	garment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 put	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 called	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 called	cc
27	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sent	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	32 men	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 undertaker	det
30	undertaker	undertaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 men	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 undertaker	case
32	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 called	obl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 fasten	mark
34	fasten	fasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 called	advcl
35	down	down	ADP	_	34 fasten	compound:prt
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 lid	det
37	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fasten	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 carry	cc
39	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 fasten	conj
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 carry	obj
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 grave	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 grave	det
43	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 carry	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 waiting	punct
45	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	50 waiting	advmod
46	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	48 friends	det:predet
47	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 friends	nmod:poss
48	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 waiting	nsubj
49	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 waiting	aux
50	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 carry	advcl
51	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 waiting	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · passive		the coffin			evening	home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	put	infinitive	the woman	man		a long flannel garment	morning		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on garment=Destination
3	call	participle			the undertaker's men				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient
4	fasten down	to-infinitive		the lid					vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Patient
5	carry	infinitive		man		the grave			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to grave=Destination
6	wait	past · progressive	words's friends	words = word					tree rules

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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