The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 124

Our friend looked on this as a great piece of luck, and made haste to kill her before the others returned, and to take out her liver, after which he dressed himself in her skin as well as he could.

Who acts: friend, haste, others, husband · What happens: look, make, kill, return, take out, dress · To what, where: haste, friend, liver, husband, skin

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, haste, others, husband), 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	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 this	case
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 looked	obl
6	as	as	ADP	_	9 piece	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 piece	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 piece	amod
9	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 luck	case
11	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 piece	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 made	cc
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
15	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 kill	mark
17	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 made	xcomp
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 kill	obj
19	before	before	SCONJ	_	22 returned	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 others	det
21	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 returned	nsubj
22	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 kill	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 take	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 take	cc
25	to	to	PART	_	26 take	mark
26	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	parataxis
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 take	compound:prt
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 liver	nmod:poss
29	liver	liver	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 take	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 dressed	punct
31	after	after	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 dressed	obl
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 dressed	nsubj
34	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 take	parataxis
35	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 dressed	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 skin	case
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 skin	nmod:poss
38	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 dressed	obl
39	as	as	ADV	_	40 well	advmod
40	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 dressed	advmod
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 could	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 could	nsubj
43	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 well	advcl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	Our friend			as a great piece of luck; on this	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on this=Theme
2	make	past	Our friend not said here	haste			tree rules
3	kill	to-infinitive	haste not said here	friend			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	return	past	the others				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	take out	to-infinitive		friend's liver			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liver=Theme
6	dress	past	husband	husband	friend's skin	well property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient

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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