The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 62

When she questioned them all, the eagle was not there, but it came soon afterwards, and when asked, it said that it had just come from Farmer Weatherbeard’s.

Who acts: woman, eagle · What happens: question, not be, come, ask, say · To what, where: birds, Farmer Weatherbeard · Speech: someone speaks here

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, eagle), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 questioned	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 questioned	nsubj
3	questioned	question	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 said	advcl
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 questioned	obj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 them	nmod:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 there	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 eagle	det
8	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 there	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 there	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 there	advmod
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 questioned	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 questioned	conj
16	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 came	advmod
17	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 asked	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 asked	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 asked	advmod
21	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 questioned	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 questioned	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 come	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 come	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 come	aux
28	just	just	ADV	_	29 come	advmod
29	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 said	ccomp
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 Weatherbeard	case
31	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Weatherbeard	compound
32	Weatherbeard	Weatherbeard	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 come	obl
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 Weatherbeard	case
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	question speech: other	past	woman	birds = bird			vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	not is	past	the eagle			there property	tree rules
3	come	past	eagle			afterwards, soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	participle	woman not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past	eagle				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	come	past · perfect	eagle		Farmer Weatherbeard		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from weatherbeard=Initial_Location

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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