The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 108

They soon skinned the dead beasts, and spread its skin out to dry, after which they had a grand feast before they curled themselves up for the night, and slept soundly.

Who acts: witch · What happens: skin, spread out, dry, have, curl up, sleep · To what, where: dead beasts, skin, grand feast, witch

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 skinned	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 skinned	advmod
3	skinned	skin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beasts	det
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 beasts	amod
6	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 skinned	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 spread	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 spread	cc
9	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 skinned	conj
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 skin	nmod:poss
11	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spread	obj
12	out	out	ADV	_	9 spread	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 dry	mark
14	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 spread	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
16	after	after	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 had	obl
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 skinned	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 feast	det
21	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 feast	amod
22	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
23	before	before	SCONJ	_	25 curled	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 curled	nsubj
25	curled	curl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 had	advcl
26	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 curled	obj
27	up	up	ADP	_	25 curled	compound:prt
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 night	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 night	det
30	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 curled	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 slept	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 slept	cc
33	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 skinned	conj
34	soundly	soundly	ADV	_	33 slept	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 skinned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	skin	past	witch	the dead beasts		soon property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beast=Patient
2	spread out	infinitive	witch not said here	beast's skin		out property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skin=Theme
3	dry	to-infinitive	witch not said here				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	have	past	witch	a grand feast			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Patient
5	curl up	past	witch	witch	night		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
6	sleep	past	witch not said here			soundly property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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