The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 65

When the eagle had had plenty of food and rest, the old woman plucked a feather out of its tail, and set the man in the feather’s place, and then the bird flew away with him, but they did not get to Farmer Weatherbeard’s before midnight.

Who acts: eagle, old woman, bird, birds · What happens: have, pluck, set, fly away, not get · To what, where: plenty, feather, tail, man, place, Farmer

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 (eagle, old woman, bird, birds), 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	5 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eagle	det
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	aux
5	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 food	case
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plenty	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rest	cc
10	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plenty	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 plucked	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woman	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 woman	amod
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 plucked	nsubj
15	plucked	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 plenty	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 feather	det
17	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 plucked	obj
18	out	out	ADP	_	21 tail	case
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 tail	case
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 tail	nmod:poss
21	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 plucked	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 set	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 set	cc
24	set	set	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 had	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 man	det
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 set	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	31 place	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 feather	det
29	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 place	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 feather	case
31	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 set	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 flew	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 flew	cc
34	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 flew	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 bird	det
36	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 flew	nsubj
37	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 set	parataxis
38	away	away	ADV	_	37 flew	advmod
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 flew	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 get	punct
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 get	cc
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 get	nsubj
44	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 get	aux
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 get	advmod
46	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 had	conj
47	to	to	ADP	_	48 Farmer	case
48	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 get	obj
49	Weatherbeard	Weatherbeard	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 Farmer	flat
50	’s	's	PART	_	48 Farmer	case
51	before	before	ADP	_	52 midnight	case
52	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 get	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · perfect	the eagle	plenty of food and rest				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient
2	pluck	past	the old woman	a feather	name's tail			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent feather=Theme out tail=Source
3	set	infinitive		the man	the feather's place			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme in place=Destination
4	fly away	past	the bird			then	with Weatherbeard; away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not get	past · do-support	birds = bird	Farmer		midnight		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer farmer=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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