The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 84

So the man did this, and no sooner had he flung them down than the feathers became a flock of ravens, which chased the crows home again.

Who acts: man, Farmer, feathers, flock · What happens: do, have, fling down, become, chase · To what, where: this, man, flock, crows

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 (man, Farmer, feathers, flock), 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 did	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 did	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 sooner	det
9	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 had	advmod
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 flung	nsubj
12	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 had	ccomp
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 flung	obj
14	down	down	ADP	_	12 flung	compound:prt
15	than	than	SCONJ	_	18 became	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 feathers	det
17	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 became	nsubj
18	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 flung	advcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 flock	det
20	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 became	xcomp
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 ravens	case
22	ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 flock	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 chased	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 chased	nsubj
25	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 flock	acl:relcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 crows	det
27	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 chased	obj
28	home	home	ADV	_	25 chased	advmod
29	again	again	ADV	_	25 chased	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the man	this			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
2	have	past	the man not said here			soon property	tree rules
3	fling down	past	Farmer	man			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	become	past	the feathers	a flock of ravens			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	chase	past	a flock of ravens	the crows	again	home property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crow=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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