The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 167

A few days later he was placed in the grave beside his wife, but nothing more was ever heard of their daughter.

What happens: place, hear · To what, where: husband, grave, nothing

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: 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 days	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 days	amod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 later	obl:unmarked
4	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 placed	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 placed	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 placed	aux:pass
7	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 grave	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 grave	det
10	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 placed	obl
11	beside	beside	ADP	_	13 wife	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod:poss
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 placed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 heard	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 heard	cc
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 heard	nsubj:pass
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 nothing	advmod
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 heard	aux:pass
19	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 heard	advmod
20	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 placed	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 daughter	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 daughter	nmod:poss
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heard	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	past · passive		husband		the grave		beside husband's wife; late property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in grave=Destination
2	hear	past · passive		nothing			ever	of women's daughter	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus

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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