The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 44
The Fawns were very hungry, and as soon as the Wolf had gone home they built a big fire in the fireplace and set the meat to cook.
Who acts: Fawns, Wolf · What happens: be, go, build, set, cook · To what, where: big fire, fireplace, meat
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Revenge of the Fawns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fawns, Wolf), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fawns | det |
| 2 | Fawns | Fawn | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 hungry | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hungry | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 hungry | advmod |
| 5 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gone | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gone | cc |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 soon | advmod |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 gone | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 gone | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Wolf | det |
| 12 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 gone | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gone | aux |
| 14 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 hungry | conj |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 17 built | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 built | nsubj |
| 17 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gone | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 fire | det |
| 19 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fire | amod |
| 20 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 built | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 fireplace | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fireplace | det |
| 23 | fireplace | fireplace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fire | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 set | cc |
| 25 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 built | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 meat | det |
| 27 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 set | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 cook | mark |
| 29 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 set | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hungry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Fawns | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past · perfect | the Wolf | soon property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | build | past | fawns = fawn | a big fire | the fireplace | home property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product | ||
| 4 | set | infinitive | fawns = fawn not said here | the meat | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | cook | to-infinitive | fawns = fawn not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Project Gutenberg book 77804 (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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