The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 9

For a year these four fed on the meat that Manawyddan and Pryderi killed out hunting, and the honey of the bees that sucked the mountain heather.

Who acts: four, Manawyddan, bees · What happens: feed, kill out, hunt, suck · To what, where: meat, mountain heather

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 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 (four, Manawyddan, bees), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3454:3114): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	3 year	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 year	det
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fed	obl
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 four	det
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 fed	nsubj
6	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 meat	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 meat	det
9	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fed	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 killed	obj
11	Manawyddan	Manawyddan	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 killed	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Pryderi	cc
13	Pryderi	Pryderi	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Manawyddan	conj
14	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 meat	acl:relcl
15	out	out	ADV	_	14 killed	advmod
16	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 killed	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 honey	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 honey	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 honey	det
20	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 meat	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 bees	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bees	det
23	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 honey	nmod
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 sucked	nsubj
25	sucked	suck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 bees	acl:relcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 heather	det
27	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 heather	compound
28	heather	heather	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sucked	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past	this four		year	on the meat and the honey of the bees	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on meat=Patient
2	kill out	past	Manawyddan and Pryderi	the meat and the honey of the bees		out property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
3	hunt	gerund	Manawyddan and Pryderi not said here				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	suck	past	the bees	the mountain heather			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent heather=Source

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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