The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 24

Then Makoma collected all the dead brushwood and trees that he could find, and making an enormous pile round the giant's legs, set a light to it.

Who acts: Makoma · What happens: collect, find, make, set · To what, where: dead brushwood, enormous pile, light

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Makoma), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 collected	advmod
2	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 collected	nsubj
3	collected	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 brushwood	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brushwood	det
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 brushwood	amod
7	brushwood	brushwood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 collected	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 trees	cc
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 brushwood	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 find	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 find	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 find	aux
13	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 collected	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 making	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 making	cc
16	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 collected	advcl
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pile	det
18	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pile	amod
19	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 making	obj
20	round	round	ADP	_	24 legs	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 giant	det
22	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 legs	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 giant	case
24	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 making	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 set	punct
26	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 making	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 light	det
28	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 set	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 set	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 collected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	collect	past	Makoma	all dead brushwood and trees		then		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brushwood=Theme
2	find	could	Makoma					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	make	gerund	Makoma not said here	a enormous pile			round the giant's legs	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pile=Product
4	set	infinitive	Makoma not said here	a light	light			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient light=Result

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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