The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 83

‘Then throw down the three feathers which you plucked out of his head,’ said the Eagle.

Who acts: you, Eagle · What happens: throw down, pluck out, say · To what, where: three feathers, head · 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 (you, Eagle), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 throw	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 throw	advmod
3	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 throw	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 feathers	det
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 feathers	nummod
7	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 throw	obj
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 plucked	obj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 plucked	nsubj
10	plucked	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 feathers	acl:relcl
11	out	out	ADP	_	14 head	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 head	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 head	nmod:poss
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 plucked	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 throw	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 throw	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Eagle	det
19	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	throw down	infinitive		the three feathers		then	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme
2	pluck out	past	you	the three feathers	Farmer's head		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent which=Beneficiary head=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the Eagle				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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