The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 64

‘Time enough,’ said she, and he lay still till he heard the funeral passing the window.

Who acts: wife, man, funeral · What happens: say, lie, hear, pass · To what, where: funeral, window · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wife, man, funeral), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Time	punct
2	Time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
3	enough	enough	ADV	_	2 Time	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Time	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Time	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lay	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lay	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lay	nsubj
11	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	parataxis
12	still	still	ADV	_	11 lay	advmod
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 heard	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 heard	nsubj
15	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lay	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 funeral	det
17	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heard	obj
18	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 funeral	acl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 window	det
20	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 passing	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	lie	past	man		still	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hear	past	man	the funeral		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer funeral=Stimulus
4	pass	gerund	the funeral not said here	the window		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme window=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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