The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 36

So the farmer took no notice, and only thought that here was a fine chance of revenging himself on his next brother for a trick which he had played, and merely told him that the ram would not eat the grass in that field, and it might be well to drive him to the pasture by the river, where his own flock was feeding.

Who acts: farmer, fine chance, ram, grass, own flock · What happens: take, think, be, revenge, play, tell · To what, where: notice, fine chance, ram, trick, grass, field · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer, fine chance, ram, grass), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 took	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 farmer	det
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 notice	det
6	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 thought	cc
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 thought	advmod
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 chance	mark
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 chance	advmod
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 chance	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 chance	det
15	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 chance	amod
16	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thought	ccomp
17	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 revenging	mark
18	revenging	revenge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 chance	acl
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 revenging	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 brother	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 brother	nmod:poss
22	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 brother	amod
23	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 revenging	obl
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 trick	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 trick	det
26	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 revenging	obl
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 played	nsubj:pass
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 played	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 played	aux
30	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 trick	acl:relcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 told	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 told	cc
33	merely	merely	ADV	_	34 told	advmod
34	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 told	iobj
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 eat	mark
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 ram	det
38	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 eat	nsubj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 eat	aux
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 eat	advmod
41	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 told	xcomp
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 grass	det
43	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 eat	obj
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 field	case
45	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	46 field	det
46	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 eat	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 well	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 well	cc
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 well	nsubj
50	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 well	aux
51	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 well	cop
52	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	54 drive	advmod
53	to	to	PART	_	54 drive	mark
54	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 took	advcl
55	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 drive	obj
56	to	to	ADP	_	58 pasture	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 pasture	det
58	pasture	pasture	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 drive	obl
59	by	by	ADP	_	61 river	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 river	det
61	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 drive	obl
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 feeding	punct
63	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	68 feeding	advmod
64	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	66 flock	nmod:poss
65	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 flock	amod
66	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 feeding	nsubj
67	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 feeding	aux
68	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	61 river	conj
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the farmer	no notice				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	the farmer not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past		a fine chance		here		tree rules
4	revenge	gerund	a fine chance not said here	ram			on ram's next brother; for a trick	tree rules
5	play	past · perfect · passive		a trick				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	past	the farmer not said here		ram		merely property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
7	not eat not said to happen	would	the ram	the grass		that field		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
8	is	might	grass				well property	tree rules
9	drive	to-infinitive	the farmer not said here	ram		the pasture	by the river	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to pasture=Destination by river=Initial_Location
10	feed	past · progressive	ram's own flock					vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: 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 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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