The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dead Wife(20), sentence 5

Her husband grieved bitterly, and buried her in the house where she had passed her life; but as the time went on he felt so lonely without her that he made a wooden doll about her height and size for company, and dressed it in her clothes.

Who acts: woman, husband · What happens: grieve, bury, pass, go, feel, make · To what, where: husband, house, life, wooden doll, doll, clothes

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dead Wife(20). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, husband), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 husband	nmod:poss
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 buried	obl
3	grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 husband	acl
4	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	3 grieved	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 buried	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 buried	cc
7	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 buried	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 house	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 house	det
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 buried	obl
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 passed	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 passed	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 passed	aux
15	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 house	acl:relcl
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 life	nmod:poss
17	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 passed	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 went	cc
20	as	as	ADP	_	22 time	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 time	det
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 went	obl
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 buried	conj
24	on	on	SCONJ	_	26 felt	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 felt	nsubj
26	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 went	ccomp
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 lonely	advmod
28	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 felt	xcomp
29	without	without	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 felt	obl
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 made	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 made	nsubj
33	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 felt	advcl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 doll	det
35	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 doll	amod
36	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 made	obj
37	about	about	ADP	_	39 height	case
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 height	nmod:poss
39	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 doll	nmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 size	cc
41	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 height	conj
42	for	for	ADP	_	43 company	case
43	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 height	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 dressed	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 dressed	cc
46	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 buried	conj
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 dressed	obj
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 clothes	case
49	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 clothes	nmod:poss
50	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	46 dressed	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 buried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grieve	participle		woman's husband not said here			bitterly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	bury	past		woman's husband	the house			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in house=Destination
3	pass	past · perfect	woman	woman's life				vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme life=Trajectory
4	go	past				time		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	feel	past	husband				without woman; lonely property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	make	past	husband	a wooden doll			about woman's height for company and size	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doll=Product
7	dress	past		doll	woman's clothes			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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