The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 80

But at the sound of his voice the two men were so terrified that they ran straight home, and the man in the coffin got up and followed them, and it was his wife that gained the gold ring, as he had been sillier than the other two.

Who acts: two men, clothes, man, coffin, wife · What happens: be, run, get up, follow, gain · To what, where: sound, clothes, wife, gold ring

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 (two men, clothes, man, coffin), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 terrified	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 sound	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sound	det
4	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 terrified	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 voice	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 voice	nmod:poss
7	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sound	nmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 men	det
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 men	nummod
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 terrified	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 terrified	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 terrified	advmod
13	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 ran	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ran	nsubj
16	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 terrified	advcl
17	straight	straight	ADV	_	18 home	advmod
18	home	home	ADV	_	16 ran	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 got	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 got	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 man	det
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 got	nsubj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 coffin	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 coffin	det
25	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 man	nmod
26	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 terrified	parataxis
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 got	compound:prt
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 followed	cc
29	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 got	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 followed	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 wife	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 wife	cc
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 wife	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 wife	cop
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 wife	nmod:poss
36	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 terrified	conj
37	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 gained	nsubj
38	gained	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 wife	acl:relcl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 ring	det
40	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 ring	compound
41	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 gained	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 sillier	punct
43	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 sillier	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 sillier	nsubj
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 sillier	aux
46	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	47 sillier	cop
47	sillier	silly	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 terrified	conj
48	than	than	ADP	_	51 two	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 two	det
50	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 two	amod
51	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 sillier	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 terrified	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the two men		the sound of man's voice	terrified property	tree rules
2	run	past	clothes			home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get up	past	the man in the coffin				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	follow	past	the man in the coffin not said here	clothes			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	is a	past	coffin	man's wife			tree rules
6	gain	past	man's wife	the gold ring			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme
7	is	past · perfect	man			than the other two; silly property	tree rules

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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