The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 80

And when they were safe in bed he stole out and buried the two pieces in the garden.

Who acts: children, cobbler · What happens: be, steal out, bury · To what, where: bed, two pieces, garden

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, cobbler), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 stole	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 safe	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 safe	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 safe	cop
5	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stole	advcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 bed	case
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 safe	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stole	nsubj
9	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 stole	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 buried	cc
12	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stole	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pieces	det
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 pieces	nummod
15	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 buried	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 garden	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 garden	det
18	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 buried	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 stole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	children = child		bed	safe property	tree rules
2	steal out	past	cobbler				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bury	past	cobbler not said here	the two pieces	the garden		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme in garden=Destination

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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