The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 65

Meanwhile word had gone round the village that the carpenter was dead, and was to be buried next day.

Who acts: word, carpenter · What happens: go, be, bury · To what, where: village

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 (word, carpenter), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	4 gone	advmod
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	round	round	ADP	_	7 village	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 village	det
7	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 dead	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 carpenter	det
10	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dead	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dead	cop
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 village	acl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 buried	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 buried	cc
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 buried	aux:pass
16	to	to	PART	_	18 buried	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 buried	aux:pass
18	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 gone	advcl
19	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 day	amod
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 buried	obl:unmarked
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	word		the village		meanwhile property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round village=Initial_Location
2	is	past	the carpenter	the village not said here			dead property	tree rules
3	bury	past · passive	word not said here			day		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»

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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