The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 143

Farmer Weatherbeard changed himself into a hare, which scratched and scraped about in the fireplace after the ring until the ashes were up to its ears.

Who acts: Farmer, ashes · What happens: change, scratch, scrape, be · To what, where: Farmer, fireplace

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, ashes), 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 changed	nsubj
2	Weatherbeard	Weatherbeard	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Farmer	flat
3	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 changed	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 hare	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hare	det
7	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 scratched	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 scratched	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 scratched	nsubj
10	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 changed	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 scraped	cc
12	scraped	scrape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 changed	conj
13	about	about	ADV	_	12 scraped	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 fireplace	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fireplace	det
16	fireplace	fireplace	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 scraped	obl
17	after	after	ADP	_	19 ring	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ring	det
19	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 scraped	obl
20	until	until	ADP	_	27 ears	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ashes	det
22	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 ears	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 ears	cop
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 were	compound:prt
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 ears	case
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 ears	nmod:poss
27	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 scraped	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 changed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past	Farmer	Farmer				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
2	scratch	past					into a hare	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into hare=Patient
3	scrape	past	Farmer not said here		the fireplace	after the ring	about property	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	is	past	the ashes			until ring's ears		tree rules

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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