The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 24

Meanwhile the clerk decided that the calf was as fat as it could be, so he killed it.

Who acts: clerk, calf, man · What happens: decide, be, kill · To what, where: calf

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clerk, calf, man), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	4 decided	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 clerk	det
3	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 decided	nsubj
4	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 fat	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 calf	det
7	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fat	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fat	cop
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 fat	advmod
10	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 decided	ccomp
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 be	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 be	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 be	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 fat	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 killed	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 killed	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 killed	nsubj
18	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 decided	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 killed	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 decided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	decide	past	the clerk		meanwhile property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the calf		fat property	tree rules
3	kill	past	man	calf		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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