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title: That evening the coffin was sent home, and in the morning at nine o’… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: That evening the coffin was sent home, and in the morning at nine o’clock the woman put him on a long flannel garment, and called to the undertaker’s men to fasten down the lid and carry him to the grave, where all their friends were waiting them. Who acts: woman, friends. A sentence of «The Brown F
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 9

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That evening the coffin was sent home, and in the morning at nine o’clock the woman put him on a long flannel garment, and called to the undertaker’s men to fasten down the lid and carry him to the grave, where all their friends were waiting them.

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**Who acts:** woman, friends · **What happens:** send, put, call, fasten down, carry, wait · **To what, where:** coffin, man, long flannel garment, men, lid, grave · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, friends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg3282:30:9
# text = That evening the coffin was sent home, and in the morning at nine o’clock the woman put him on a long flannel garment, and called to the undertaker’s men to fasten down the lid and carry him to the grave, where all their friends were waiting them.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	home	home	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	flannel	flannel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	garment	garment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	undertaker	undertaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’s	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	fasten	fasten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
35	down	down	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
45	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	50	advmod	_	_
46	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	48	det:predet	_	_
47	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nsubj	_	_
49	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	advcl	_	_
51	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · passive |  | the coffin |  |  | evening | home *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | the woman | man |  | a long flannel garment | morning |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on garment=Destination |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  |  | the undertaker's men |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient |
| 4 | **fasten down** | to-infinitive |  | the lid |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Patient |
| 5 | **carry** | infinitive |  | man |  | the grave |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to grave=Destination |
| 6 | **wait** | past · progressive | words's friends | words *= word* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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