The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 63

The next morning a boy knocked at the door, bidding him attend the burial of the man who was dead, and he was just going to get up when his wife stopped him.

Who acts: boy, man, wife · What happens: knock, bid, attend, be, go, get up · To what, where: boy, burial, man

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, man, wife), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3454:3245): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

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	6 knocked	obl:unmarked
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knocked	nsubj
6	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 door	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knocked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bidding	punct
11	bidding	bid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 knocked	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bidding	obj
13	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 bidding	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 burial	det
15	burial	burial	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 attend	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 man	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 burial	nmod
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 dead	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 dead	cop
21	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 going	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 going	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 going	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 going	aux
26	just	just	ADV	_	27 going	advmod
27	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 knocked	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 get	mark
29	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 going	xcomp
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 get	compound:prt
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 stopped	advmod
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 wife	nmod:poss
33	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stopped	nsubj
34	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 get	advcl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 stopped	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	knock	past	a boy		morning	at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
2	bid	gerund	a boy not said here	boy			tree rules
3	attend	infinitive	a boy not said here	the burial of the man			vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme burial=Goal
4	is	past	the man			dead property	tree rules
5	go	past · progressive	man				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	get up	to-infinitive	man not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
7	stop	past	man's wife	man			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector he=Eventuality
8	bury			the man			nom burial «event transitive»: of=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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