The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 119

When he had got some distance he had to go into an inn to get some more brandy; so he set a barrel full of red-hot nails under his horse’s nose, and a trough filled with oats beneath its tail, and then he tied the halter fast to a hook and went away into the inn.

Who acts: Farmer, distance, trough · What happens: get, have, go, set, fill, tie · To what, where: distance, inn, more brandy, barrel, 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 (Farmer, distance, trough), 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	4 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	aux
4	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 distance	det
6	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 distance	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 go	mark
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 had	xcomp
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 inn	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 inn	det
13	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 get	mark
15	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 go	advcl
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 brandy	det
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 brandy	amod
18	brandy	brandy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 get	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 set	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 set	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 set	nsubj
22	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 barrel	det
24	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 set	obj
25	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 barrel	amod
26	of	of	ADP	_	30 nails	case
27	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 nails	amod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 red	punct
29	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 nails	amod
30	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 full	obl
31	under	under	ADP	_	35 nose	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 horse	nmod:poss
33	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 nose	nmod:poss
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 horse	case
35	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 nails	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 filled	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 filled	cc
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 trough	det
39	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 filled	nsubj
40	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 set	conj
41	with	with	ADP	_	42 oats	case
42	oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 filled	obl
43	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	45 tail	case
44	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 tail	nmod:poss
45	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 oats	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 tied	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 tied	cc
48	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 tied	advmod
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 tied	nsubj
50	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 set	conj
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 halter	det
52	halter	halter	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 tied	obj
53	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	50 tied	advmod
54	to	to	ADP	_	56 hook	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 hook	det
56	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 tied	obl
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 went	cc
58	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 set	conj
59	away	away	ADV	_	58 went	advmod
60	into	into	ADP	_	62 inn	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 inn	det
62	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 went	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · perfect	Farmer	some distance				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer distance=Stimulus
2	have	past	Farmer	some distance not said here				tree rules
3	go	to-infinitive	some distance not said here		a inn			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into inn=Initial_Location
4	get	to-infinitive	some distance not said here	some more brandy				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brandy=Stimulus
5	set	past	Farmer	a barrel				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient barrel=Result
6	fill	participle	a trough				with oats beneath trough's tail	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with oat=Instrument
7	tie	past	Farmer	the halter		then	to a hook; fast property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent halter=Patient to hook=Co-Patient
8	go away	past	Farmer not said here		the inn		away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into inn=Initial_Location

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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