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description: 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. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Revenge of the Fawns, with its 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 44

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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.

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**Who acts:** Fawns, Wolf · **What happens:** be, go, build, set, cook · **To what, where:** big fire, fireplace, meat

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77804:27:45
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fawns	Fawn	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
15	home	home	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fireplace	fireplace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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 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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