The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 72

He went to the stable door, and there he stumbled against a hard stone, which he picked up, and beneath it lay three splinters of wood, which he also picked up.

Who acts: Farmer, hard stone, stone · What happens: go, stumble, pick up, lie · To what, where: stable door, hard stone, three splinters

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, hard stone, stone), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 door	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
5	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 door	amod
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stumbled	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stumbled	cc
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 stumbled	expl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stumbled	nsubj
11	stumbled	stumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
12	against	against	ADP	_	15 stone	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 stone	det
14	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stone	amod
15	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stumbled	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 picked	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 picked	nsubj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 picked	nsubj
19	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 stone	acl:relcl
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 picked	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lay	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 lay	cc
23	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	25 lay	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 lay	nsubj
25	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
26	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 splinters	nummod
27	splinters	splinter	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 lay	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 wood	case
29	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 splinters	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 picked	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 picked	obj
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 picked	nsubj
33	also	also	ADV	_	34 picked	advmod
34	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 splinters	acl:relcl
35	up	up	ADP	_	34 picked	compound:prt
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	Farmer		the stable door	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
2	stumble	past	Farmer		a hard stone; there	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against stone=Trajectory
3	pick up	past	a hard stone			vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	lie	past	stone	three splinters of wood		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location splinter=Theme
5	pick up	past	Farmer	three splinters of wood		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic

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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