The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 49

Finally he said: 'If a wolf or any wild animal attempts to hurt the flock you should pick up a big stone like this' (suiting the action to the word) 'and throw a few such at him, and he will be afraid and go away.'

Who acts: farmer, wolf, you · What happens: say, hurt, pick up, suit, throw, be · To what, where: flock, big stone, action, few such · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer, wolf, you), 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	Finally	finally	ADV	_	3 said	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 hurt	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 hurt	punct
6	If	if	SCONJ	_	15 hurt	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wolf	det
8	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hurt	nsubj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 attempts	cc
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 attempts	det
11	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 attempts	amod
12	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 attempts	compound
13	attempts	attempt	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wolf	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 hurt	mark
15	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 flock	det
17	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hurt	obj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 pick	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 pick	aux
20	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 hurt	parataxis
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 pick	compound:prt
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 stone	det
23	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 stone	amod
24	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pick	obj
25	like	like	ADP	_	26 this	case
26	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 pick	obl
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 hurt	punct
28	(	(	PUNCT	_	29 suiting	punct
29	suiting	suit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 said	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 action	det
31	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 suiting	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 word	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 word	det
34	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 suiting	obl
35	)	)	PUNCT	_	29 suiting	punct
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	29 suiting	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 throw	cc
38	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	conj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 such	det
40	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 such	amod
41	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	38 throw	obj
42	at	at	ADP	_	43 him	case
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 such	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 afraid	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 afraid	cc
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 afraid	nsubj
47	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 afraid	aux
48	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 afraid	cop
49	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	parataxis
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 go	cc
51	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 afraid	conj
52	away	away	ADV	_	51 go	advmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	49 afraid	punct
54	'	'	PUNCT	_	49 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	farmer		finally property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hurt a condition, not said to happen	to-infinitive	a wolf or any wild animal attempts	the flock		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flock=Patient
3	pick up	should	you	a big stone	like this	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic
4	suit	gerund	farmer not said here	the action	to the word	tree rules
5	throw	infinitive	farmer not said here	a few such		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent such=Theme
6	is	future	farmer		afraid property	tree rules
7	go away	infinitive	farmer not said here		away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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