The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 63

She made a soft bed under him, and put a coverlet over him, and she folded his hands over his breast; but instead of a flower or a psalm-book, she gave him a pint-bottle of brandy in his hands.

Who acts: Death · What happens: make, put, fold, give · To what, where: soft bed, coverlet, hands, breast, pint bottle, carpenter

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), 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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bed	det
4	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bed	amod
5	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
6	under	under	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 put	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 put	cc
10	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 coverlet	det
12	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obj
13	over	over	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 put	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 folded	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 folded	cc
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 folded	nsubj
18	folded	fold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hands	nmod:poss
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 folded	obj
21	over	over	ADP	_	23 breast	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 breast	nmod:poss
23	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 folded	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 flower	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 flower	cc
26	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	29 flower	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	26 instead	fixed
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 flower	det
29	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	parataxis
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 book	cc
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 book	det
32	psalm	psalm	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 book	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 psalm	punct
34	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 flower	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 gave	punct
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 gave	nsubj
37	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 gave	iobj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 bottle	det
40	pint	pint	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 bottle	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 pint	punct
42	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 gave	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 brandy	case
44	brandy	brandy	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 bottle	nmod
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 hands	case
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 hands	nmod:poss
47	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 gave	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	Death	a soft bed			under carpenter	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Product
2	put	infinitive	Death not said here	a coverlet			over carpenter	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent coverlet=Theme over he=Destination
3	fold	past	Death	carpenter's hands		carpenter's breast		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
4	give	past	Death	a pint bottle of brandy	carpenter	carpenter's hands		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bottle=Theme

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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