The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 97

And much more useful was he than a greyhound, for in the evening he brought large logs in his mouth to kindle a fire, and killed a fat buck for dinner.

Who acts: lion · What happens: be, bring, kindle, kill · To what, where: lion, large logs, mouth, fire, fat buck

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 useful	cc
2	much	much	ADV	_	3 more	advmod
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 useful	advmod
4	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 he	cop
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 useful	nsubj
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 greyhound	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 greyhound	det
9	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 useful	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 brought	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 evening	case
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 evening	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 evening	det
14	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 brought	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 brought	nsubj
16	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 useful	parataxis
17	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 logs	amod
18	logs	log	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 brought	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 mouth	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mouth	nmod:poss
21	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 brought	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 kindle	mark
23	kindle	kindle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 brought	advcl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 fire	det
25	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 kindle	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 killed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 killed	cc
28	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 useful	parataxis
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 buck	det
30	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 buck	amod
31	buck	buck	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 killed	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 dinner	case
33	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 killed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 useful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		lion				tree rules
2	bring	past	lion	large logs	lion's mouth	evening		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent log=Theme
3	kindle	to-infinitive	lion not said here	a fire				vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient
4	kill	past		a fat buck			for dinner	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buck=Theme

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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