The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 68

The marriage took place the following month, and a few days later the old man died quite suddenly.

Who acts: marriage, old man · What happens: take, follow, die · To what, where: place

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marriage, old 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 marriage	det
2	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 month	det
6	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 month	amod
7	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 died	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 died	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 days	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 days	amod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 later	obl:unmarked
13	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 died	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 died	nsubj
17	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 suddenly	advmod
19	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	17 died	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the marriage	place	month		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
2	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	die	past	the old man			late, suddenly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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