The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 99

‘Then you must fling down the great stone which you took away from the stable door,’ said the Eagle.

Who acts: you, great stone, Eagle · What happens: fling down, take away, say · To what, where: great stone, stable door · 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, great stone, 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	_	5 fling	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 fling	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 fling	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fling	aux
5	fling	fling	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 fling	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stone	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stone	amod
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fling	obj
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 took	nsubj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 took	nsubj
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stone	acl:relcl
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 took	advmod
14	from	from	ADP	_	17 door	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 door	det
16	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 door	amod
17	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fling	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 fling	punct
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Eagle	det
22	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 said	nsubj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fling down	must	you	the great stone		then		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
2	take away	past	the great stone		the stable door		away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent from door=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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