The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 90

The next morning the three wives were buried, and on returning from the cemetery, their husbands met Toueno-Boueno driving a magnificent flock of sheep.

Who acts: husbands · What happens: bury, return, meet, drive · To what, where: next morning, cemetery, Toueno, magnificent flock

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husbands), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 buried	nsubj:pass
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wives	det
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 wives	nummod
6	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 buried	nsubj:pass
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 buried	aux:pass
8	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 met	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 met	cc
11	on	on	SCONJ	_	12 returning	mark
12	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 met	advcl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 cemetery	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cemetery	det
15	cemetery	cemetery	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 returning	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 returning	punct
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 husbands	nmod:poss
18	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 met	nsubj
19	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 buried	conj
20	Toueno	Toueno	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 met	obj
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 Toueno	punct
22	Boueno	Boueno	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Toueno	flat
23	driving	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 met	xcomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 flock	det
25	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 flock	amod
26	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 driving	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 sheep	case
28	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 flock	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 buried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	bury	past · passive		the next morning		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	return	gerund	wives's husbands not said here		the cemetery	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from cemetery=Initial_Location
3	meet	past	wives's husbands	Toueno		tree rules
4	drive	gerund	wives's husbands not said here	a magnificent flock of sheep		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme flock=Trajectory

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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