The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 68

The funeral party had already met at the carpenter’s, and marched oft towards the church with the coffin, when the smith’s wife came rushing in to her husband.

Who acts: wife · What happens: meet, march, come, rush in · To what, where: funeral party, carpenter, church

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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 party	det
2	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 party	compound
3	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 met	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 met	aux
5	already	already	ADV	_	6 met	advmod
6	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 carpenter	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 carpenter	det
9	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 met	obl
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 carpenter	case
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 marched	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 marched	cc
13	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 met	conj
14	oft	oft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 marched	xcomp
15	towards	towards	ADP	_	17 church	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 church	det
17	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 marched	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 coffin	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 coffin	det
20	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 marched	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 came	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 smith	det
24	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wife	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 smith	case
26	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 marched	conj
28	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 came	xcomp
29	in	in	ADV	_	28 rushing	advmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 husband	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 husband	nmod:poss
32	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rushing	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet	past · perfect · passive		the funeral party	the carpenter		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent
2	march	past			the church	with the coffin; oft property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards church=Destination
3	come	past	the smith's wife				tree rules
4	rush in	gerund	the smith's wife not said here			to Death's husband result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to husband=Result

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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