The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 91

‘Then throw down the splinters of wood which you took from beneath the gray stone by the stable door,’ said the Eagle.

Who acts: splinters, Eagle · What happens: throw down, take, say · To what, where: splinters, gray stone · 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 (splinters, 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	23 said	ccomp
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 throw	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 splinters	det
6	splinters	splinter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 throw	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 wood	case
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 splinters	nmod
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 took	nsubj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 took	nsubj
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 splinters	acl:relcl
12	from	from	ADP	_	16 stone	case
13	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	16 stone	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stone	det
15	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stone	compound
16	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obl
17	by	by	ADP	_	20 door	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 door	det
19	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 door	amod
20	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 throw	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 throw	punct
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Eagle	det
25	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 said	nsubj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw down	infinitive		the splinters of wood		then		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent splinter=Theme
2	take	past	the splinters of wood		the gray stone		by the stable door	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from stone=Initial_Location
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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