--- title: Meanwhile they had reached home, and before getting down from his ho… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Meanwhile they had reached home, and before getting down from his horse the man called for a coffin to be brought; and when it was there he placed it in front of the house, and said to his wife: Who acts: horses, coffin, husband. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fai --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/6/65/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/6/) / 65 # The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 65 Meanwhile they had reached home, and before getting down from his horse the man called for a coffin to be brought; and when it was there he placed it in front of the house, and said to his wife: **Who acts:** horses, coffin, husband · **What happens:** reach, get down, call, bring, be, place · **To what, where:** man, coffin, front, wife · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horses, coffin, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2435:6:65 # text = Meanwhile they had reached home, and before getting down from his horse the man called for a coffin to be brought; and when it was there he placed it in front of the house, and said to his wife: 1 Meanwhile meanwhile ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 reached reach VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 home home ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 before before SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 10 down down ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 16 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 coffin coffin NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 25 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 placed place VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reach** | past · perfect | horses *= horse* | | | | | home, meanwhile *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **get down** | gerund | horses *= horse* *not said here* | | | | | from husband's horse; down *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **call** | participle | | the man *not said here* | | | | for a coffin | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for coffin=Recipient | | 4 | **bring** | to-infinitive · passive | | | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together» | | 5 | **is** | past | coffin | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **place** | past | husband | coffin | | front of the house | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in front=Destination | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | husband *not said here* | | husband's wife | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient | 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/6/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/6/66/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/6/)