The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 118
When he got to the market, he received the three hundred dollars, but Farmer Weatherbeard treated him so handsomely that he quite forgot to take off the halter; so Farmer Weatherbeard went away with the horse.
Who acts: youth, Farmer · What happens: get, receive, treat, forget, not take off, go away · To what, where: hundred dollars, youth, halter
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 (youth, Farmer), 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 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 received | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 market | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 market | det |
| 6 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 received | nsubj |
| 9 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dollars | det |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 hundred | compound |
| 12 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 dollars | nummod |
| 13 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 received | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 treated | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 treated | cc |
| 16 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 treated | nsubj |
| 17 | Weatherbeard | Weatherbeard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Farmer | flat |
| 18 | treated | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 received | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 treated | obj |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 handsomely | advmod |
| 21 | handsomely | handsomely | ADV | _ | 18 treated | advmod |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 forgot | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 forgot | nsubj |
| 24 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 25 forgot | advmod |
| 25 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 treated | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 take | mark |
| 27 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 forgot | xcomp |
| 28 | off | off | ADP | _ | 27 take | compound:prt |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 halter | det |
| 30 | halter | halter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 take | obj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 went | punct |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 went | advmod |
| 33 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 went | nsubj |
| 34 | Weatherbeard | Weatherbeard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Farmer | flat |
| 35 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 received | conj |
| 36 | away | away | ADV | _ | 35 went | advmod |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 horse | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 horse | det |
| 39 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 went | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | youth | to the market result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to market=Result | ||||
| 2 | receive | past | youth | the hundred dollars | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dollar=Theme | ||||
| 3 | treat | past | Farmer | youth | handsomely property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 4 | forget | past | youth | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not take off | to-infinitive | youth not said here | the halter | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent halter=Theme | ||||
| 6 | go away | past | Farmer | with the horse; away property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with horse=Beneficiary |
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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