The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 100
The man did so, and it turned into a great high mountain of stone, which Farmer Weatherbeard had to break his way through before he could follow them.
Who acts: man, stone, Farmer, great high mountain · What happens: do, turn, have, break, follow · To what, where: great high mountain, way, man
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, stone, Farmer, great high mountain), 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 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 turned | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 turned | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 turned | nsubj |
| 8 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 mountain | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 mountain | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mountain | amod |
| 12 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mountain | amod |
| 13 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turned | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 stone | case |
| 15 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mountain | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 had | obj |
| 18 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 had | nsubj |
| 19 | Weatherbeard | Weatherbeard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Farmer | flat |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 mountain | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 break | mark |
| 22 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 had | xcomp |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 way | nmod:poss |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 break | obj |
| 25 | through | through | SCONJ | _ | 29 follow | mark |
| 26 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 29 follow | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 follow | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 follow | aux |
| 29 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 break | advcl |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 follow | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the man | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | turn | past | stone | a great high mountain of stone | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into mountain=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Farmer | a great high mountain of stone | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | break | to-infinitive | a great high mountain of stone not said here | Farmer's way | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Patient | ||||
| 5 | follow | could | Farmer | man | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 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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