The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 66

When they got there the Eagle said: ‘There are a great many dead bodies lying outside the door, but you must not concern yourself about them.

Who acts: birds, Eagle, great many dead bodies, you · What happens: get, say, be, lie, not concern · To what, where: door, yourself · 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 (birds, Eagle, great many dead bodies, you), 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 got	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	advcl
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 got	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Eagle	det
6	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 are	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 are	punct
10	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 are	expl
11	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bodies	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bodies	amod
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bodies	amod
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bodies	amod
16	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 are	nsubj
17	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 bodies	acl
18	outside	outside	ADP	_	20 door	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 door	det
20	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lying	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 concern	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 concern	cc
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 concern	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 concern	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 concern	advmod
26	concern	concern	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 are	obl
27	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 concern	nmod
28	about	about	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 yourself	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	get	past	birds = bird		there	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	the Eagle			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	does	present	a great many dead bodies		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lie	gerund	a great many dead bodies not said here		the door	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside door=Location
5	not concern	must	you	yourself		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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