The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 21
So the cow was killed and the meat cooked, and a bag made of its red skin.
Who acts: meat · What happens: kill, cook, make · To what, where: cow, bag
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (meat), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 killed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cow | det |
| 3 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 killed | aux:pass |
| 5 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cooked | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 meat | det |
| 8 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cooked | nsubj |
| 9 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 killed | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bag | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bag | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bag | det |
| 13 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cooked | obl |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 bag | acl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 skin | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 skin | nmod:poss |
| 17 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 skin | amod |
| 18 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · passive | the cow | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cook | participle | the meat | a bag | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | participle | a bag not said here | of meat's red skin | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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