The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 46
It was not long before he began to ask about Farmer Weatherbeard.
Who acts: snuff, other two · What happens: not be, begin, ask
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 (snuff, other two), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 long | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 began | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 began | nsubj |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 ask | mark |
| 9 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 began | xcomp |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 Weatherbeard | case |
| 11 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Weatherbeard | compound |
| 12 | Weatherbeard | Weatherbeard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ask | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | snuff | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | other two = two | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | other two = two not said here | about Farmer Weatherbeard | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about weatherbeard=Topic |
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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