The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dead Wife(20), sentence 23
Therefore they made a fire, cooked some food, and spread out their skins to sleep.
Who acts: man · What happens: make, cook, spread out, sleep · To what, where: fire, food, skins
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dead Wife(20). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fire | det |
| 5 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cooked | punct |
| 7 | cooked | cook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 food | det |
| 9 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cooked | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 spread | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 spread | cc |
| 12 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 spread | compound:prt |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 skins | nmod:poss |
| 15 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 spread | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 sleep | mark |
| 17 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 spread | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | man | a fire | therefore property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product | |||
| 2 | cook | past | man not said here | some food | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent food=Patient | ||||
| 3 | spread out | past | man not said here | man's skins | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skin=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sleep | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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