The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 61

The carpenter believed everything that his wife said, and so he believed now that he was dead, and lay still and let her do as she pleased.

Who acts: carpenter, wife, Death · What happens: believe, say, be, lay, let, do · To what, where: everything, Death · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (carpenter, wife, Death), 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 carpenter	det
2	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 believed	nsubj
3	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 believed	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 said	obj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 everything	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 believed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 believed	cc
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 believed	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 believed	nsubj
13	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 believed	advmod
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 dead	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dead	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 dead	cop
18	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 believed	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lay	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 lay	cc
21	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 said	parataxis
22	still	still	ADV	_	21 lay	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 let	cc
24	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 lay	conj
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 let	obj
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 let	xcomp
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 pleased	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 pleased	nsubj
29	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 do	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 believed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past	the carpenter	everything			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	carpenter's wife				tree rules
3	believe	past	carpenter		now		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	carpenter			dead property	tree rules
5	lay	infinitive			still		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	let	infinitive		Death			tree rules
7	do	infinitive	Death not said here				vn act-114-1 «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 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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