The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 121

‘Ah, poor creature, what a master you must have to treat you thus!’ she said, and pushed the halter off the hook so that the horse might turn round and eat the oats.

Who acts: master, poor creature, horse · What happens: have, treat, say, push, turn round, eat · To what, where: poor creature, you, halter, hook, oats · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (master, poor creature, horse), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 creature	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 creature	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 creature	amod
5	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 have	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 master	det
9	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	nsubj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 have	aux
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 creature	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 treat	mark
14	treat	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 have	xcomp
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 treat	obj
16	thus	thus	ADV	_	14 treat	advmod
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 creature	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 creature	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pushed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 pushed	cc
23	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 said	ccomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 halter	det
25	halter	halter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pushed	obj
26	off	off	ADP	_	28 hook	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hook	det
28	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pushed	obl
29	so	so	SCONJ	_	34 turn	mark
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 turn	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 horse	det
32	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 turn	nsubj
33	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 turn	aux
34	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 pushed	advcl
35	round	round	ADV	_	34 turn	advmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 eat	cc
37	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 turn	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 oats	det
39	oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 eat	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	must	a master	poor creature				tree rules
2	treat	to-infinitive	poor creature not said here		you		thus property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	master					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	push	past		the halter		the hook		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent halter=Theme off hook=Trajectory
5	turn round	might	the horse				round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	eat	infinitive	the horse not said here	the oats				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oat=Patient

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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