The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 164

The body of the dead woman was then prepared for burial, and her tired husband went to bed, rejoicing in his heart that he had been delivered from the firebrand who had made his home unpleasant.

Who acts: tired husband, firebrand · What happens: prepare, go, rejoice, deliver, make · To what, where: body, bed, heart, husband, firebrand, home

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tired husband, firebrand), 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	2 body	det
2	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 prepared	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 woman	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 body	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 prepared	aux:pass
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 prepared	advmod
9	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 burial	case
11	burial	burial	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 prepared	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 went	cc
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 husband	nmod:poss
15	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 husband	amod
16	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 prepared	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 bed	case
19	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 went	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 rejoicing	punct
21	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 went	advcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 heart	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 heart	nmod:poss
24	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rejoicing	obl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 delivered	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 delivered	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 delivered	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 delivered	aux:pass
29	delivered	deliver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 rejoicing	advcl
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 firebrand	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 firebrand	det
32	firebrand	firebrand	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 delivered	obl
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 made	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 made	aux
35	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 firebrand	acl:relcl
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 home	nmod:poss
37	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 made	obj
38	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 made	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 prepared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prepare	past · passive		the body of the dead woman		then	for burial	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for burial=Beneficiary
2	go	past	daughter's tired husband		bed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
3	rejoice	gerund	daughter's tired husband not said here		husband's heart			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	deliver	past · perfect · passive		husband	the firebrand			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from firebrand=Initial_Location
5	make	past · perfect	the firebrand	husband's home			unpleasant property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Product

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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