The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 69

When they saw the new-comer and how he was made, and when they heard him crying too, they began to look black at him.

Who acts: turkeys, Drakestail · What happens: see, make, hear, cry, begin, look · To what, where: new comer, Drakestail

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (turkeys, Drakestail), 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 saw	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 comer	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 comer	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 new	punct
7	comer	comer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 made	cc
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 made	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 made	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 made	aux:pass
12	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 saw	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 began	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 began	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 heard	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heard	nsubj
17	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 began	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heard	obj
19	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 heard	xcomp
20	too	too	ADV	_	19 crying	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heard	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 began	nsubj
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 look	mark
25	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 began	xcomp
26	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 look	xcomp
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 black	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	turkeys = turkey	the new comer		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer comer=Stimulus
2	make	past · passive		Drakestail		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	hear	past	turkeys = turkey	Drakestail		tree rules
4	cry speech: express	gerund	Drakestail not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	begin	past	turkeys = turkey			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	look	to-infinitive	turkeys = turkey not said here		black property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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