The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 24

Then he took off the skin, and, stealing some fire from a tent, which his sharp eyes had perceived hidden behind a rock, he set about roasting the bear bit by bit.

Who acts: wolverine · What happens: take off, steal, perceive, hide, set, roast · To what, where: skin, fire, tent, sharp eyes, rock, bear bit

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (wolverine), 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 took	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 took	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 skin	det
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stealing	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stealing	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stealing	punct
10	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 took	advcl
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 fire	det
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stealing	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 tent	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tent	det
15	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stealing	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 perceived	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 perceived	obj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 eyes	nmod:poss
19	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 eyes	amod
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 perceived	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 perceived	aux
22	perceived	perceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 tent	acl:relcl
23	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 perceived	xcomp
24	behind	behind	ADP	_	26 rock	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 rock	det
26	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hidden	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 set	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 set	nsubj
29	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
30	about	about	SCONJ	_	31 roasting	mark
31	roasting	roast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 set	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 bit	det
33	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bit	compound
34	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 roasting	obj
35	by	by	ADP	_	36 bit	case
36	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 roasting	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take off	past	wolverine	the skin		then		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme
2	steal	gerund	wolverine not said here	some fire	a tent			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fire=Theme from tent=Source
3	perceive	past · perfect · passive		wolverine's sharp eyes				tree rules
4	hide	participle			a rock			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind rock=Location
5	set	past	wolverine					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	roast	gerund	wolverine not said here	the bear bit			by bit	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bit=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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