The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 70

So the man plucked out another, and then Farmer Weatherbeard shrieked ‘Oof!’ again; but when the man had plucked the third, Farmer Weatherbeard screamed so loudly that the man thought that brick and mortar would be rent in twain, but for all that he went on sleeping.

Who acts: Farmer, man · What happens: pluck out, shriek, pluck, scream, think, rend · To what, where: man, Oof, third, brick, twain, sleeping · 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 (Farmer, man), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 plucked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plucked	nsubj
4	plucked	pluck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 plucked	compound:prt
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 plucked	nsubj:pass
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shrieked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 shrieked	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 shrieked	advmod
10	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 shrieked	nsubj
11	Weatherbeard	Weatherbeard	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Farmer	flat
12	shrieked	shriek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 plucked	parataxis
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 Oof	punct
14	Oof	oof	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shrieked	obj
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 Oof	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 Oof	punct
17	again	again	ADV	_	12 shrieked	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 screamed	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 screamed	cc
20	when	when	SCONJ	_	24 plucked	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 man	det
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 plucked	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 plucked	aux
24	plucked	pluck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 screamed	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 third	det
26	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 plucked	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 plucked	punct
28	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 screamed	nsubj
29	Weatherbeard	Weatherbeard	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Farmer	flat
30	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 shrieked	conj
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 loudly	advmod
32	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	30 screamed	advmod
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 thought	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 man	det
35	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 thought	nsubj
36	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 screamed	advcl
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 rent	mark
38	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 rent	nsubj:pass
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 mortar	cc
40	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 brick	conj
41	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 rent	aux
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 rent	aux:pass
43	rent	rend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 thought	ccomp
44	in	in	ADP	_	45 twain	case
45	twain	twain	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 rent	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 went	punct
47	but	but	CCONJ	_	52 went	cc
48	for	for	ADP	_	49 all	case
49	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	52 went	det:predet
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 went	mark
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 went	nsubj
52	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 rent	conj
53	on	on	ADP	_	54 sleeping	case
54	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 went	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 plucked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pluck out	participle · passive		the man				vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	shriek	past	Farmer	Oof		then; again		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location oof=Theme
3	pluck	past · perfect	the man	the third				vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Patient
4	scream speech: express	past	Farmer				loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	think speech: other	past	the man					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	rend	would · passive		brick and mortar	twain			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	go	past	Farmer		sleeping			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on sleeping=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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