The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 21

He killed the other two geese for dinner, but built a little shed for Mimi in one of his rooms, under the pretence of fattening her under his own eye.

Who acts: dwarf, pretence · What happens: kill, build, fatten · To what, where: other two geese, little shed, pretence, Mimi, own eye

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarf, pretence), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 killed	nsubj
2	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 geese	det
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 geese	amod
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 geese	nummod
6	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 killed	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 dinner	case
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 geese	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 built	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 built	cc
11	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 killed	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 shed	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 shed	amod
14	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 built	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 Mimi	case
16	Mimi	Mimi	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 shed	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 one	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 built	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 rooms	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 rooms	nmod:poss
21	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 one	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pretence	punct
23	under	under	ADP	_	25 pretence	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pretence	det
25	pretence	pretence	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 built	obl
26	of	of	SCONJ	_	27 fattening	mark
27	fattening	fatten	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 pretence	acl
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 fattening	obj
29	under	under	ADP	_	32 eye	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 eye	nmod:poss
31	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 eye	amod
32	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fattening	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 killed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	kill	past	dwarf	the other two geese		for dinner	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=Theme
2	build	past	dwarf not said here	a little shed	the pretence	for Mimi; in one of dwarf's rooms	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent shed=Material for mimi=Beneficiary
3	fatten	gerund	the pretence not said here	Mimi	dwarf's own eye		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent her=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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