The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 46

That night he died, and his wife and son and daughter mourned for him seven days, and gave him a burial according to the custom of his people.

Who acts: father, wife · What happens: die, mourn, give, accord · To what, where: burial, father

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, wife), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 died	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mourned	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 mourned	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wife	nmod:poss
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mourned	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 son	cc
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wife	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 daughter	cc
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wife	conj
13	mourned	mourn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 died	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 mourned	obl
16	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 days	nummod
17	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 mourned	obl:unmarked
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gave	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 gave	cc
20	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 died	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gave	iobj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 burial	det
23	burial	burial	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gave	obj
24	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 custom	case
25	to	to	ADP	_	24 according	fixed
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 custom	det
27	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gave	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 people	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 people	nmod:poss
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 custom	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	father			night		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	mourn	past	father's wife and son and daughter			day	for father	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for he=Attribute
3	give	past	father not said here	a burial	father		accord the custom of father's people	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient burial=Theme
4	accord	gerund						vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/20/46/