The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 29
After that he landed on the beach, skinned the wolf, and taking the skin to his cottage, he hung it up before the fire to dry.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: land, skin, take, hang up, dry · To what, where: beach, wolf, skin, cottage, fire
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolf), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 landed | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 landed | nsubj |
| 4 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 beach | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beach | det |
| 7 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 landed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 skinned | punct |
| 9 | skinned | skin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 landed | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wolf | det |
| 11 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 skinned | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 taking | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 taking | cc |
| 14 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 landed | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 skin | det |
| 16 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taking | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 cottage | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 cottage | nmod:poss |
| 19 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taking | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hung | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hung | nsubj |
| 22 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 landed | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hung | obj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 hung | compound:prt |
| 25 | before | before | ADP | _ | 27 fire | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 fire | det |
| 27 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hung | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 dry | mark |
| 29 | dry | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 hung | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 landed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | past | Wolf | the beach | after that | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on beach=Destination | |||
| 2 | skin | past | Wolf not said here | the wolf | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wolf=Patient | ||||
| 3 | take | gerund | Wolf not said here | the skin | Wolf's cottage | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent skin=Theme to cottage=Destination | |||
| 4 | hang up | past | Wolf | skin | the fire | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme before fire=Destination | |||
| 5 | dry | to-infinitive | Wolf not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 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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