--- title: So his wife and her three children watched by him as long as he was… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So his wife and her three children watched by him as long as he was alive, and after he was dead they took him up and laid the body on a platform of stakes which they had prepared in the grove. Who acts: wife, Carrier, children. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, Carrier, children), 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:pg3282:7:108 # text = So his wife and her three children watched by him as long as he was alive, and after he was dead they took him up and laid the body on a platform of stakes which they had prepared in the grove. 1 So so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 8 watched watch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 11 as as ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 13 as as SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 19 after after ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 obl _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 platform platform NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 stakes stake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 prepared prepare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl:relcl _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 grove grove NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | participle | Carrier's wife and wife's three children | | | | | by Carrier; long *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by he=Location | | 2 | **is** | past | Carrier | | | | | alive *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | past | Carrier | | | | | dead *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **take up** | past | children *= child* | | Carrier | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | | 5 | **lay** | past | children *= child* *not said here* | the body | | a platform of stakes | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme on platform=Destination | | 6 | **prepare** | past · perfect · passive | | stakes | | the grove | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/7/107/) - next →: [sentence 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/7/109/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/7/)