The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 2

He grieved for their unhappy fate, and at once proceeded to bury them; but no sooner had he laid them in their graves, than their hands started up through the earth and remained sticking up like those of their fellows.

Who acts: Prince, hands, names · What happens: grieve, proceed, bury, have, lay, start up · To what, where: names, graves, earth

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (Prince, hands, names), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grieved	nsubj
2	grieved	grieve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 fate	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fate	nmod:poss
5	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fate	amod
6	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grieved	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 proceeded	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 proceeded	cc
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 proceeded	obl
11	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grieved	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 bury	mark
13	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 proceeded	xcomp
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bury	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 had	cc
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 sooner	det
18	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 had	advmod
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grieved	parataxis
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 laid	nsubj
21	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 had	ccomp
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 laid	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 graves	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 graves	nmod:poss
25	graves	grave	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 laid	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 started	punct
27	than	than	SCONJ	_	30 started	mark
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hands	nmod:poss
29	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 started	nsubj
30	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 had	conj
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 started	compound:prt
32	through	through	ADP	_	34 earth	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 earth	det
34	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 started	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 remained	cc
36	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grieved	conj
37	sticking	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 remained	xcomp
38	up	up	ADP	_	37 sticking	compound:prt
39	like	like	ADP	_	40 those	case
40	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	37 sticking	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 fellows	case
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 fellows	nmod:poss
43	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 those	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grieved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grieve	past	Prince			for names's unhappy fate	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	proceed	past	Prince not said here				vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	bury	to-infinitive	Prince not said here	names = name			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	have	past				soon property	tree rules
5	lay	past	Prince	names = name	names's graves		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in grave=Destination
6	start up	past	names's hands		the earth		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	remain	past	Prince not said here				tree rules
8	stick up	gerund	Prince not said here			like those	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
9	fate		names = name				nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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