The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 64

But when his mother heard what he had done she was very angry, and beat him with a stick which she had in her hand.

Who acts: mother, dog · What happens: hear, do, be, beat, have · To what, where: dog, stick, hand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, dog), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 heard	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 heard	advmod
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mother	nmod:poss
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 done	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 done	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 done	aux
9	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 heard	ccomp
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 angry	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 angry	cop
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 angry	advmod
13	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 done	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 beat	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 beat	cc
16	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 heard	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 beat	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 stick	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 stick	det
20	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 beat	obl
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 had	obj
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stick	acl:relcl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 hand	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hand	nmod:poss
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	dog's mother				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do	past · perfect	dog				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	is	past	mother			angry property	tree rules
4	beat	infinitive	dog's mother not said here	dog		with a stick	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with stick=Instrument
5	have	past	mother	a stick	mother's hand		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient

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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