The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 68
The man did this; when he had got the bits of bread he first plucked out one feather.
Who acts: man, Weatherbeard · What happens: do, get, pluck out · To what, where: this, bits, one feather
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 (man, Weatherbeard), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 did | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 got | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 got | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 got | aux |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 did | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bits | det |
| 11 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 got | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 bread | case |
| 13 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bits | nmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 plucked | nsubj |
| 15 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 plucked | advmod |
| 16 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 bread | acl:relcl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 plucked | compound:prt |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 feather | nummod |
| 19 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 plucked | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the man | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | get | past · perfect | Weatherbeard | the bits of bread | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bit=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | pluck out | past | Weatherbeard | one feather | first property | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient |
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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