The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 62

She got her neighbours summoned, and they helped to lay him in the coffin--it was one of those he himself had made; but his wife had bored holes in it to let him get some air.

Who acts: Death, neighbours, coffin, wife, carpenter · What happens: get, summon, help, lay, be, make · To what, where: carpenter, coffin, one, holes, air

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 (Death, neighbours, coffin, wife), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 neighbours	nmod:poss
4	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 summoned	nsubj
5	summoned	summon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 helped	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 helped	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 helped	nsubj
9	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 lay	mark
11	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 helped	xcomp
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lay	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 coffin	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 coffin	det
15	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lay	obl
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 one	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 one	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 one	cop
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 lay	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 those	case
21	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 one	nmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 made	nsubj:pass
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	22 he	nmod:unmarked
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 made	aux
25	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 those	acl:relcl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 bored	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 bored	cc
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 wife	nmod:poss
29	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bored	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 bored	aux
31	bored	bore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 got	conj
32	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 bored	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 bored	obl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 let	mark
36	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 bored	advcl
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 let	obj
38	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 let	xcomp
39	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	40 air	det
40	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 get	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	Death				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	summon	past	Death's neighbours				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	help	past	neighbours = neighbour				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	lay	to-infinitive	neighbours = neighbour not said here	carpenter	the coffin		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in coffin=Destination
5	is a	past	coffin	one		of those	tree rules
6	make	past · perfect · passive		carpenter			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
7	bore	past · perfect	carpenter's wife	holes	coffin		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hole=Experiencer
8	let	to-infinitive	carpenter's wife not said here	carpenter			tree rules
9	get	infinitive	carpenter not said here	some air			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer air=Stimulus

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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