The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 76

Then the Eagle told him to pluck three feathers out of its tail, and put in the hare, the stone, the splinters of wood and himself instead of them, and then he would be able to carry them all home.

Who acts: Eagle, Farmer · What happens: tell, pluck, put, be, carry · To what, where: Farmer, three feathers, tail, splinters · 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 (Eagle, Farmer), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 told	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Eagle	det
3	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 pluck	mark
7	pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 feathers	nummod
9	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pluck	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	13 tail	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 tail	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 tail	nmod:poss
13	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pluck	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 put	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 put	cc
16	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 told	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 hare	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hare	det
19	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stone	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 stone	det
22	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hare	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 splinters	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 splinters	det
25	splinters	splinter	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hare	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 wood	case
27	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 splinters	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 himself	cc
29	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 put	conj
30	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	32 them	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	30 instead	fixed
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 put	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 able	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 able	cc
35	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 able	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 able	nsubj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 able	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 able	cop
39	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 told	ccomp
40	to	to	PART	_	41 carry	mark
41	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 able	xcomp
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 carry	obj
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 them	nmod:unmarked
44	home	home	ADV	_	41 carry	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Eagle		Farmer		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	pluck not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Eagle not said here	three feathers		feather's tail			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent feather=Theme out tail=Source
3	put	participle	the Eagle not said here					in the hare and the stone and the splinters of wood; instead splinters = splinter	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in hare=Destination
4	is	would	Farmer				then	able property	tree rules
5	carry	to-infinitive	Farmer not said here	splinters = splinter				home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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