The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 108

So his wife and her three children watched by him as long as he was alive, and after he was dead they took him up and laid the body on a platform of stakes which they had prepared in the grove.

Who acts: wife, Carrier, children · What happens: watch, be, take up, lay, prepare · To what, where: Carrier, body, platform, stakes, grove

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, Carrier, children), 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	_	8 watched	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wife	nmod:poss
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 watched	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 children	cc
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 children	nmod:poss
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 children	nummod
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wife	conj
8	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 watched	obl
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 long	advmod
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 watched	advmod
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 alive	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 alive	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 alive	cop
16	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 long	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 took	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 took	cc
19	after	after	ADP	_	22 dead	case
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dead	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dead	cop
22	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 took	obl
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 took	nsubj
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 watched	parataxis
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 took	obj
26	up	up	ADP	_	24 took	compound:prt
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 laid	cc
28	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 took	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 body	det
30	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 laid	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 platform	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 platform	det
33	platform	platform	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 laid	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 stakes	case
35	stakes	stake	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 platform	nmod
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 prepared	nsubj:pass
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 prepared	nsubj
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 prepared	aux
39	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 stakes	acl:relcl
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 grove	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 grove	det
42	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 prepared	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 watched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	watch	participle	Carrier's wife and wife's three children				by Carrier; long property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by he=Location
2	is	past	Carrier				alive property	tree rules
3	is	past	Carrier				dead property	tree rules
4	take up	past	children = child		Carrier			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
5	lay	past	children = child not said here	the body		a platform of stakes		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme on platform=Destination
6	prepare	past · perfect · passive		stakes		the grove		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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