The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 101

And when the ogre came, he seized Motikatika’s father and carried him outside the hut and ate him.

Who acts: ogre, boy · What happens: come, seize, carry, eat · To what, where: father, boy

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ogre, boy), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 seized	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ogre	det
4	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seized	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 seized	nsubj
8	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Motikatika	Motikatika	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 father	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 Motikatika	case
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seized	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 carried	cc
13	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seized	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 carried	obj
15	outside	outside	ADP	_	17 hut	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hut	det
17	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carried	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ate	cc
19	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 carried	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 ate	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the ogre			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seize	past	boy	Motikatika's father		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme
3	carry	past	boy not said here	boy	outside the hut	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	eat	past	boy not said here	boy		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 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.

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