The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 74

He threw down the three little bits of bread and a hare came out and ate them.

Who acts: Farmer, hare · What happens: throw down, come out, eat · To what, where: three little bits, bits

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, hare), 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 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 threw	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bits	det
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 bits	nummod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bits	amod
7	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 threw	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 bread	case
9	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bits	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hare	det
12	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	conj
14	out	out	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 ate	cc
16	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 came	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ate	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	throw down	past	Farmer	the three little bits of bread		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme
2	come out	past	a hare		out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	eat	past	a hare not said here	bits = bit		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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