The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 34

And so, because they had all been so clever, and so fond of each other, they were all laid in one grave.

Who acts: Brothers · What happens: have, be, lay · To what, where: Brothers, one grave

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brothers), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 had	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	6 had	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 had	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	all	all	ADV	_	10 clever	advmod
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 clever	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 clever	advmod
10	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 had	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fond	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fond	cc
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 fond	advmod
14	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 clever	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 each	case
16	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	14 fond	obl
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 each	fixed
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 laid	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 laid	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 laid	aux:pass
21	all	all	ADV	_	22 laid	advmod
22	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 fond	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 grave	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 grave	nummod
25	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 laid	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Brothers = brother				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	participle	Brothers = brother not said here			all, clever property	tree rules
3	be		Brothers = brother not said here			of each	tree rules
4	lay	past · passive		Brothers = brother	one grave	all property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in grave=Destination

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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