The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 124
Farmer Weatherbeard went after him, and changed himself into a great pike.
Who acts: Farmer · What happens: go, change · To what, where: horse
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), 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 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | Weatherbeard | Weatherbeard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Farmer | flat |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 changed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 changed | cc |
| 8 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 changed | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 pike | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pike | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pike | amod |
| 13 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 changed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Farmer | after horse | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | change | past | Farmer not said here | horse | into a great pike result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into pike=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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