The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 34

So she gathered them all together by blowing a whistle which she had, and questioned them, but there was not one of them which knew anything about Farmer Weatherbeard.

Who acts: woman, one · What happens: gather, blow, have, question, be, know · To what, where: beasts, whistle, anything

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 (woman, one), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 gathered	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gathered	nsubj
3	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gathered	obj
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 together	advmod
6	together	together	ADV	_	3 gathered	advmod
7	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 blowing	mark
8	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 gathered	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 whistle	det
10	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blowing	obj
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 had	obj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 whistle	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 questioned	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 questioned	cc
16	questioned	question	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gathered	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 questioned	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 was	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 was	cc
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 was	expl
21	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 questioned	conj
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 one	advmod
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 was	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 one	nmod
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 knew	nsubj
27	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 one	acl:relcl
28	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 knew	obj
29	about	about	ADP	_	30 Farmer	case
30	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 anything	nmod
31	Weatherbeard	Weatherbeard	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Farmer	flat
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gather	past	woman	beasts = beast		together property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	blow	gerund	woman not said here	a whistle			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent whistle=Patient
3	have	past	woman	a whistle			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
4	question speech: other	past	woman not said here	beasts = beast			vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
5	be	past	one of beasts		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	know	past		anything		about Farmer	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

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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