The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 98

Owen made his fire and skinned the buck, and put some of it to roast, and gave the rest to the lion for supper.

Who acts: Owen · What happens: make, skin, put, roast, give, fire · To what, where: fire, buck, some, rest, lion

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 (Owen), 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	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 fire	nmod:poss
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 skinned	cc
6	skinned	skin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 buck	det
8	buck	buck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 skinned	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 put	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 put	cc
11	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	advcl
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 put	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 some	nmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 roast	mark
16	roast	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 put	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gave	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 gave	cc
19	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rest	det
21	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gave	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 lion	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 lion	det
24	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gave	obl
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 supper	case
26	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lion	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	make	past	Owen	Owen's fire		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
2	skin	past	Owen not said here	the buck		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer buck=Patient
3	put	infinitive	Owen not said here	some		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent some=Goal
4	roast	to-infinitive	Owen not said here			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	give	past	Owen not said here	the rest	the lion for supper	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rest=Theme to lion=Recipient
6	fire		Owen			nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent

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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