The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 62

So she carried home the baby to her hut, and next day she took a spade to the cave and dug a grave where she buried the poor mother.

Who acts: widow · What happens: carry, take, dig, bury · To what, where: baby, hut, spade, cave, grave, poor mother

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widow), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 carried	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 carried	nsubj
3	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 carried	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 baby	det
6	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 hut	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hut	nmod:poss
9	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 took	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 took	cc
12	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	amod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obl:unmarked
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 took	nsubj
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carried	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 spade	det
17	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 cave	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cave	det
20	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 dug	cc
22	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 took	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 grave	det
24	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dug	obj
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 buried	advmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 buried	nsubj
27	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 grave	acl:relcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 mother	det
29	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 mother	amod
30	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 buried	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	widow	the baby	widow's hut		home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent baby=Theme to hut=Destination
2	take	past	widow	a spade	the cave	day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spade=Theme to cave=Destination
3	dig	past	widow not said here	a grave				vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grave=Theme
4	bury	past	widow	the poor mother				vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme

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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