Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 13

He cooked the beast over his bonfire and ate one half of it, leaving the other half for his breakfast.

Who acts: Carl · What happens: cook, eat, leave · To what, where: beast, bonfire, one half, other half

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Carl), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cooked	nsubj
2	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 beast	det
4	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cooked	obj
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 bonfire	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bonfire	nmod:poss
7	bonfire	bonfire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cooked	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ate	cc
9	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cooked	conj
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 half	nummod
11	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	9 ate	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 half	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 leaving	punct
15	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 ate	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 half	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 half	amod
18	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	15 leaving	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 breakfast	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 breakfast	nmod:poss
21	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 leaving	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cooked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cook	past	Carl	the beast	Carl's bonfire		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent beast=Patient
2	eat	past	Carl not said here	one half of half			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient
3	leave	gerund	Carl not said here	the other half		for Carl's breakfast	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent half=Theme for breakfast=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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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