The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 52
When he came back all the flock were scattered or killed, and when the farmer heard the tale he beat him soundly. '
Who acts: farmer · What happens: come back, scatter, kill, hear, beat · To what, where: flock, tale, Weaver
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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 scattered | advcl |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 flock | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 flock | det |
| 7 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 scattered | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 scattered | aux:pass |
| 9 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 killed | cc |
| 11 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 scattered | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 beat | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 beat | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 heard | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 farmer | det |
| 16 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heard | nsubj |
| 17 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 beat | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tale | det |
| 19 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heard | obj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 beat | nsubj |
| 21 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 scattered | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 beat | obj |
| 23 | soundly | soundly | ADV | _ | 21 beat | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 scattered | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 scattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | farmer | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | scatter | past · passive | all flock | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | kill | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | hear | past | the farmer | the tale | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | beat | past | farmer | Weaver | soundly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=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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