The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 144

But Jack changed himself into a fox, and bit the hare’s head off, and if Farmer Weatherbeard was possessed by the evil one all was now over with him.

Who acts: Jack, evil one, all · What happens: change, bite off, possess, be · To what, where: Jack, head, Farmer, evil one

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 (Jack, evil one, all), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 changed	cc
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 changed	nsubj
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 fox	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fox	det
7	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 changed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bit	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bit	cc
10	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 changed	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hare	det
12	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 head	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 hare	case
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bit	obj
15	off	off	ADP	_	10 bit	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 possessed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 possessed	cc
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 possessed	mark
19	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 possessed	nsubj:pass
20	Weatherbeard	Weatherbeard	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Farmer	flat
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 possessed	aux:pass
22	possessed	possess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 changed	parataxis
23	by	by	ADP	_	26 one	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 one	det
25	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 one	amod
26	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 possessed	obl
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 over	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 over	cop
29	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 over	advmod
30	over	over	ADV	_	26 one	acl:relcl
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 over	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 changed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	change	past	Jack	Jack		into a fox result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into fox=Result
2	bite off	past	Jack not said here	the hare's head			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
3	possess a condition, not said to happen	past · passive	the evil one	Farmer			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme
4	is	past	all	the evil one not said here	now	with Farmer; over property	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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