The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 34

When he had recovered himself a little, he collected the bones of his dead wife, buried them in the garden, and swore over the grave to be avenged on the Tanuki.

Who acts: peasant · What happens: recover, collect, bury, swear, avenge · To what, where: peasant, bones, garden, grave, Tanuki

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 recovered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 recovered	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 recovered	aux
4	recovered	recover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 collected	advcl
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 recovered	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 little	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 recovered	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 recovered	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 collected	nsubj
10	collected	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bones	det
12	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 collected	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 wife	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wife	nmod:poss
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wife	amod
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bones	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 buried	punct
18	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 collected	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 buried	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 garden	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 garden	det
22	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 buried	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 swore	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 swore	cc
25	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 collected	parataxis
26	over	over	ADP	_	28 grave	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 grave	det
28	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 swore	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	31 avenged	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 avenged	aux:pass
31	avenged	avenge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 swore	advcl
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 Tanuki	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Tanuki	det
34	Tanuki	Tanuki	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 avenged	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 collected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	recover	past · perfect	peasant	peasant		a little obl	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
2	collect	past	peasant	the bones of peasant's dead wife			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme
3	bury	past	peasant not said here	bones = bone	the garden		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in garden=Destination
4	swear	past			the grave		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	avenge	to-infinitive · passive			the Tanuki		tree rules

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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