The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 253

Then they placed her on a bier, and all the seven Dwarfs sat round it, weeping and sobbing for three whole days.

Who acts: dwarfs, seven Dwarfs · What happens: place, sit, weep, sob · To what, where: SNOWDROP, bier

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarfs, seven Dwarfs), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 placed	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 placed	nsubj
3	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 placed	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 bier	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bier	det
7	bier	bier	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 placed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sat	cc
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 Dwarfs	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Dwarfs	det
12	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 Dwarfs	nummod
13	Dwarfs	Dwarf	PROPN	Number=Plur	14 sat	nsubj
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 placed	conj
15	round	round	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sat	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 weeping	punct
18	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 sat	advcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sobbing	cc
20	sobbing	sob	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 weeping	conj
21	for	for	ADP	_	24 days	case
22	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 days	nummod
23	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 days	amod
24	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sobbing	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	past	dwarfs = dwarf	SNOWDROP	a bier	then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme on bier=Destination
2	sit	past	all seven Dwarfs				round bier	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	weep	gerund	all seven Dwarfs not said here					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sob	gerund	all seven Dwarfs not said here			day		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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