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title: Owen made his fire and skinned the buck, and put some of it to roast… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Owen made his fire and skinned the buck, and put some of it to roast, and gave the rest to the lion for supper. Who acts: Owen. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 98

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Owen made his fire and skinned the buck, and put some of it to roast, and gave the rest to the lion for supper.

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**Who acts:** Owen · **What happens:** make, skin, put, roast, give, fire · **To what, where:** fire, buck, some, rest, lion

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Owen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3454:31:98
# text = Owen made his fire and skinned the buck, and put some of it to roast, and gave the rest to the lion for supper.
1	Owen	Owen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	skinned	skin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	buck	buck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	roast	roast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Owen | Owen's fire |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product |
| 2 | **skin** | past | Owen *not said here* | the buck |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer buck=Patient |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive | Owen *not said here* | some |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent some=Goal |
| 4 | **roast** | to-infinitive | Owen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **give** | past | Owen *not said here* | the rest | the lion for supper |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rest=Theme to lion=Recipient |
| 6 | **fire** |  | Owen |  |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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