The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 71

The farmer eyed them a minute, and then, picking up his stick, he dealt each a sounding blow, counting, as he did so, 'One! two! three!' and so on up to the seven.

Who acts: farmer · What happens: eye, pick up, deal, sound, count, do · To what, where: plans, stick, sounding blow

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 farmer	det
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eyed	nsubj
3	eyed	eye	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 eyed	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 minute	det
6	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eyed	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 picking	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 picking	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 picking	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 picking	punct
11	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 eyed	advcl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 picking	compound:prt
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 stick	nmod:poss
14	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 picking	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dealt	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 dealt	nsubj
17	dealt	deal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 eyed	conj
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	21 blow	det
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 blow	det
20	sounding	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 blow	amod
21	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dealt	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 counting	punct
23	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 dealt	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 did	punct
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 did	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 did	nsubj
27	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 counting	conj
28	so	so	ADV	_	27 did	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 One	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 One	punct
31	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 dealt	obl
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 eyed	punct
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 three	compound
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	33 two	punct
35	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 eyed	obj
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 eyed	punct
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 eyed	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 seven	cc
39	so	so	ADV	_	40 on	advmod
40	on	on	ADP	_	44 seven	case
41	up	up	ADP	_	44 seven	case
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 seven	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 seven	det
44	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 eyed	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 eyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eye	past	the farmer	plans = plan	minute		tree rules
2	pick up	gerund	the farmer not said here	farmer's stick	then		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Topic
3	deal	past	farmer	each sounding blow		One obl	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme
4	sound	gerund					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	count	gerund	farmer not said here				vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
6	do	past	farmer				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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