The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 21

After that they could just fill in the well, and then escape being at any expense for his funeral.

Who acts: men · What happens: fill, escape, be · To what, where: well, expense

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 fill	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fill	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fill	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 fill	advmod
6	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 well	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 well	det
9	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fill	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 escape	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 escape	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 escape	advmod
13	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fill	conj
14	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 expense	cop
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 expense	case
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 expense	det
17	expense	expense	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 escape	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 funeral	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 funeral	nmod:poss
20	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 escape	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	could	men = man	the well	after that		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	escape	infinitive	men = man not said here		then	for steward's funeral	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	gerund		any expense			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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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