The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 65

But long after she was dead, and her children too, the villagers would tell the tale of her imprisonment underground, as they sat carving wood in the winter nights.

Who acts: princess, villagers, imprisonment · What happens: be, tell, sit, carve, imprison · To what, where: tale, wood · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, villagers, imprisonment), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 dead	cc
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 dead	advmod
3	after	after	ADP	_	6 dead	case
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dead	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	cop
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 children	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 children	cc
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 children	nmod:poss
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dead	obl
11	too	too	ADV	_	6 dead	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 villagers	det
14	villagers	villager	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 tell	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	aux
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 dead	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tale	det
18	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tell	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 imprisonment	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 imprisonment	nmod:poss
21	imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tale	nmod
22	underground	underground	ADV	_	16 tell	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sat	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 sat	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sat	nsubj
26	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	advcl
27	carving	carve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 sat	advcl
28	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 carving	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 nights	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 nights	det
31	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 nights	compound
32	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 carving	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	princess			princess's children obl; dead, long property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	would	the villagers	the tale of princess's imprisonment		underground property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
3	sit	past	villagers = villager				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	carve	gerund	villagers = villager not said here	wood	night		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme
5	tell		princess's imprisonment				nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent
6	imprison		princess				nom imprisonment «act 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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