The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 86

Then he tied a cord round him and hung him over the fire to roast, while he finished a box that he was making before the door of the hut, which he meant to hold Patto's flesh when it was cooked.

Who acts: Patto, hut · What happens: tie, hang, roast, finish, make, mean · To what, where: cord, Patto, fire, box, flesh

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Patto, hut), 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 tied	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tied	nsubj
3	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cord	det
5	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tied	obj
6	round	round	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tied	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hung	cc
9	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tied	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hung	obj
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 fire	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fire	det
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hung	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 roast	mark
15	roast	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hung	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 finished	punct
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	19 finished	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 finished	nsubj
19	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tied	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 box	det
21	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 finished	obj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 making	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 making	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 making	aux
25	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 finished	advcl
26	before	before	ADP	_	28 door	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 door	det
28	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 making	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 hut	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hut	det
31	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 door	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 meant	punct
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 meant	nsubj
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 meant	nsubj
35	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 hut	acl:relcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 hold	mark
37	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 meant	xcomp
38	Patto	Patto	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 flesh	nmod:poss
39	's	's	PART	_	38 Patto	case
40	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 hold	obj
41	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	44 cooked	advmod
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 cooked	nsubj:pass
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 cooked	aux:pass
44	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 hold	advcl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past	Patto	a cord		then	round path	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Patient
2	hang	past	Patto not said here	Patto	the fire			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme over fire=Destination
3	roast	to-infinitive	Patto not said here					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	finish	past	Patto	a box				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector box=Eventuality
5	make	past · progressive	Patto			before the door of the hut		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	mean	past	the hut					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	hold not said to happen	to-infinitive	the hut not said here	Patto's flesh				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Theme
8	cook	past · passive		flesh				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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