The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 92

The man did this, and no sooner had he flung them down than they grew up into a great thick wood, and Farmer Weatherbeard had to go home for an axe to cut his way through it.

Who acts: man, Farmer · What happens: do, have, fling down, grow up, go, cut · To what, where: this, man, great thick wood, way, wood

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), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 did	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 sooner	det
8	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 had	advmod
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 flung	nsubj
11	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 had	ccomp
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 flung	obj
13	down	down	ADP	_	11 flung	compound:prt
14	than	than	SCONJ	_	16 grew	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 grew	nsubj
16	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 flung	advcl
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 grew	compound:prt
18	into	into	ADP	_	22 wood	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 wood	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 wood	amod
21	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 wood	amod
22	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grew	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 had	cc
25	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 had	nsubj
26	Weatherbeard	Weatherbeard	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Farmer	flat
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 go	mark
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 had	xcomp
30	home	home	ADV	_	29 go	advmod
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 axe	case
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 axe	det
33	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 go	obl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 cut	mark
35	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 go	advcl
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 way	nmod:poss
37	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 cut	obj
38	through	through	ADP	_	39 it	case
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 cut	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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	grow up	past	man			into a great thick wood result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into wood=Result
5	have	past	Farmer				tree rules
6	go	to-infinitive	Farmer not said here			for a axe; home property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for axe=Beneficiary
7	cut	to-infinitive	Farmer not said here	Farmer's way	wood		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product

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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