The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 102
While he was doing this the Eagle flew off to the man’s home with him, and with the hare, and when they had got home the man went to the churchyard, and had some Christian earth laid upon the hare, and then it turned into his son Jack.
Who acts: Farmer, Eagle, man, earth · What happens: do, fly off, get, go, have, lay · To what, where: this, churchyard, Christian earth
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 (Farmer, Eagle, man, earth), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 doing | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 doing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 doing | aux |
| 4 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 flew | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 doing | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Eagle | det |
| 7 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | nsubj |
| 8 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 flew | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 home | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 home | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 man | case |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 home | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hare | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hare | cc |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 hare | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hare | det |
| 21 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 got | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 got | cc |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 got | advmod |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 got | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 got | aux |
| 27 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 flew | conj |
| 28 | home | home | ADV | _ | 27 got | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 man | det |
| 30 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 went | nsubj |
| 31 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 got | parataxis |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 churchyard | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 churchyard | det |
| 34 | churchyard | churchyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 went | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 had | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 had | cc |
| 37 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 flew | conj |
| 38 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 40 earth | det |
| 39 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 earth | amod |
| 40 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 had | obj |
| 41 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 earth | acl |
| 42 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 44 hare | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 hare | det |
| 44 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 laid | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 turned | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 turned | cc |
| 47 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 49 turned | advmod |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 turned | nsubj |
| 49 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 had | conj |
| 50 | into | into | ADP | _ | 52 son | case |
| 51 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 son | nmod:poss |
| 52 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 turned | obl |
| 53 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 son | appos |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · progressive | Farmer | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | fly off | past | the Eagle | to the man's home with Farmer result; with the hare | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to home=Result | ||||
| 3 | get | past · perfect | man | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | go | past | the man | the churchyard | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to churchyard=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | have | past | the Eagle not said here | some Christian earth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Patient | ||||
| 6 | lay | participle | some Christian earth not said here | upon the hare | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon hare=Destination | ||||
| 7 | turn | past | earth | then | into Farmer's son result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into son=Result |
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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