The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 86

His strange death, which no one could explain, made a great sensation throughout the country, and the funeral his people gave him was the most splendid ever known.

Who acts: one, strange death, funeral, emperor · What happens: explain, make, give, be, know, die · To what, where: strange death, great sensation, emperor

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, strange death, funeral, emperor), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 death	nmod:poss
2	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 death	amod
3	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 explain	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 explain	obj
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 explain	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 explain	aux
9	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 death	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 death	punct
11	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 sensation	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sensation	amod
14	sensation	sensation	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obj
15	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	17 country	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 country	det
17	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gave	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 gave	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 funeral	det
21	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gave	nsubj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 people	nmod:poss
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 gave	nsubj
24	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 made	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 gave	iobj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 splendid	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 splendid	det
28	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	29 splendid	advmod
29	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 gave	advcl
30	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	31 known	advmod
31	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 splendid	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	could	no one	emperor's strange death				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic
2	make	past	emperor's strange death	a great sensation		throughout the country		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sensation=Product
3	give	past	the funeral		emperor			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	is	past	the funeral not said here				splendid property	tree rules
5	know	participle	the funeral not said here			ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	die		emperor					nom death «event intransitive»: 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 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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