The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 71

And the naked man stood alone at the head of the coffin.

Who acts: naked man · What happens: stand · To what, where: head

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 (naked man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 stood	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	nsubj
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 stood	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 head	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 head	det
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 coffin	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 coffin	det
12	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 head	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the naked man			the head of the coffin		alone property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at head=Location

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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